The Dormitory of the Friable Little Girls

This is a work that had potential, but the author just cuts it off abruptly. The last few pages read more like an outline of what was planned than anything else.

Melanie Cunningham, who has hemophilia, is sent to the Little Flower Preparatory School for Girls as a punishment for skipping school and smoking. The girls there are from relatively rich families, and it seems that many of them have physical problems of one sort or another, something which the author doesn't really explore.

The nuns are totally sadistic, slapping girls and caning them, giving one girl with brittle bones a broken bone. They even call the girl a harlot.

Melanie herself comes in for a beating. Her friend, Mary, becomes ill.

Various girls have gone missing, and it's assumed that a vampire got them (why that assumption? Again, the author could have developed things a lot but didn't.)

Melanie is in the graveyard one night and the vampire finds her and turns her (instant turning, no waiting needed.) She then goes to the infirmary, kills one of the nuns, and plans to turn Mary into a vampire with Mary agreeing.

End of story. Just like that, it's over. No telling of what happened after the nun was killed and Mary was turned. Nothing about what happened afterward at all. I'd call this the first chapter of a book and not an entire book.



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