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Midnight in the savage garden Part 5

   New Orleans November 2023 Christian’s plane landed at 9pm at Louis Armstrong airport.  He hailed a cab to his hotel from the airport, exhausted from the flights he had 2 lay overs until he reached New Orleans.  Switching planes twice.  Once in New York, and once in Florida.  He wanted a shower and bed.  When he checked into the hotel he quickly showered, and went to bed.  Slept most of the night, and woke the next morning ready for breakfast.  Eggs, bacon, sausage, waffles, muffins, the  hotel had quite the spread for the free continental breakfast.  Buffet style so you could grab whatever you wanted and eat.  After filling up on eggs, sausage bacon and coffee he went back up to his room to get ready for the day.   He had contacted Desi via email before he had left Montreal for New Orleans to set up another meeting with her.  They agreed to have lunch together the day after Christian arrived in New Orleans aga...

Midnight in the savage garden part 4

  Voltaire paused in his story, staring at Christian the host of this strange podcast.  The air was thick with fear, anticipation, hunger and then Voltaire spoke.. “ I hunted after we first met that night in the Cafe Du Monde, killed some pimp as he was about to ‘get laid’, I let his victim go but I could have killed her too if I wanted I could very easily kill you now too Christian, you are right to be frightened of me.  I am a monster.  Ah but no I will not kill you yet, I did feed before I came here to you. Besides, I need you to tell my story.  Death will not visit you tonight." Christian was frightened, and had been since this otherworldly creature walked into his studio.  He did his best to conceal it, but had failed.  His voice came out shaky "That's um-Yes-Good to know you won't kill me.  May I ask, why did you agree to come here on my show to tell your story?"  "After centuries of hiding in the shadows, seeing ideologies rise, fall, ...