2. The Journey to
Porle Joen....

3. Scaring Class mates in Year 5!

4. Continuing the Horror in the 90’s...

5. The Journey to
Awakening....

6. The Original Copy of the poem
“Awakening”...

7. Early Writings...

8. The Fun of Research...

9. First Printed Draft...

10. The Journey
isComplete....

12. Thank you...
Thank you to ALL my family and friends who have
taken this extremely long journey with me. The
poem “Awakening” was written in 1991 based on a
story concept. In 2008, the story finally clawed its
way to my frontal lobe and thus began a steady four
years journey of creative insanity on the
rollercoaster of procrastination.
If I thanked you all individually, it would be a whole
other book but a few must be mentioned here.

13. Thank you to my Mummy for reading to me as an
ankle biter and encouraging the creative creature
within. Thank you to my Not Real Daddy for making
that woman very happy!
My Mummy for
reading to me as an
ankle biter and
encouraging the
creative creature
within. Thank you to
my Not Real Daddy for
making that woman
very happy!
Thank you to...

14. Thank you to...
Thank you to my Mummy for reading to me as an
ankle biter and encouraging the creative creature
within. Thank you to my Not Real Daddy for making
that woman very happy!
Jase for encouraging the
creative creature to re-emerge
after years of
hiding and for being my
untitled “go to” man AND
for being a truly creative
inspiration to be around.
Rosie for Your
early editing
contributions
though you often
burrowed your
frow in crustrated
froncentration as I
battled the cold hard concrete.
Nate
and
Kathan
for the
last 10 years of
always being awesome!
Benny for
being a sick
and twisted
A.W. that I
can always
talk death
and destruction with.
Love you, see you, bye.
Franc for
showing
me how
to find
Rebs and
Zach.

15. Thank you to...
Thank you to my Mummy for reading to me as an
ankle biter and encouraging the creative creature
within. Thank you to my Not Real Daddy for making
that woman very happy!
Larissa for reminding
me that life is too short
to forget your dreams.
Dot – just because.
TYLYMY.

16. Thank you to my Mummy for reading to me as an
ankle biter and encouraging the creative creature
within. Thank you to my Not Real Daddy for making
that woman very happy!

17. Dedicated to Larissa Jane Harris
My inspiration in life!

18. Awakening
I awoke, I was alone.
My limbs were stiff, unused, weak. My body was cold
and yet my veins were warm; warm and pulsating
with fresh blood.
My lips were dry, my hunger great.
My day had come.
How long had I been here, suspended between life and
death? Which side had I reached? I could feel the life
inside me;
I was alive, I was real.
Yet I felt removed, empty, like an empty shell,
a dead form.
Which was I?
My mind was not my own,
I could not think, I could not remember.
My mind was a sieve, straining between
the mess of madness,
searching for an explanation, a reason,
but only detaining a feeling of loss and remorse.
For something I had control over and regret
for my decision
and yet I felt somehow relieved.
But for what reason, what decision,
I did not know.
I know now.
Remorse?
I have none.
Porle Joen Copyright 1991

19. The Awakening Dictionary:
“Awakening”
a·wak·en·ing [uh-wey-kuh-ning]
1. A recognition, realization, or coming into awareness of
something: a rude awakening to the disagreeable facts
2. Process of becoming a Vampire
• A Created ‘s Awakening begins after death and will
continue until succession of Stuttering
• A First’s Awakening occurs during adolescence

20. PROLOGUE
... So it
Began

21. PART I
“New World”
Strange words and stranger
places,
borrowed memories of foreign
faces.
Cold bodies, no burning pyre,
broken covenant still beating fire.

22. “I wouldn’t mind watching
Bex but nobody wants to
see your pasty ass...” -
Benny

23. Awakening
contains
164,764
words!

24. The Awakening Dictionary:
“Created”
cre·ate [kree-eyt]
1. To cause to come into being, as something unique that
would not naturally evolve or that is not made by
ordinary processes
2. A Vampire whom has Awakened following human death
and infection of the Vampiric Virus

25. “Try that again, I’ll rip
your fucking throat out.”
- Rebecca

26. “So, I’m thinking if you eat
tonight you will definitely
desecrate me.” - Zach

27. Awakening is
453 pages!

28. The Awakening Dictionary:
“First”
first [furst]
1. The person or thing that is first in time, order, rank, etc
2. The beginning
3. The first part; first member of a series.
4. Evolutionary Vampire born from inheritance of genes

29. The first word was
written on
December 28th
2008

30. PART II
“Lost”
Below the torrential storm
that whips the waves asunder,
beneath the turbulent exterior,
expectation was always calm.

31. I
was
pronounced
dead.

32. She told me tricks to
killing people so that
others would never
know. Horrible,
disgusting, fascinating
tricks.

33. The Awakening Dictionary:
“Stuttering”
stut·ter [stuht-er]
1. Distorted action characterized principally by blocks or
spasms interrupting the rhythm
2. The uncontrollable dropping in and out of senses during
Awakening.

34. Awakening
Is a real word useD
to describe the
process of
development of “real
vampires”

35. “Of course I care, you idiot.”
“That’s Vampiot to you,” - Rebecca.

36. The word
“Blood”
appears 411
times!

37. The Awakening Dictionary:
“Shimmer”
shim·mer [shim-er]
1. To appear to quiver or vibrate in faint light or while
reflecting heat waves.
2. The appearance of alternate faces on a Created.

38. “Trust me, once you get
past the concept that
you were a pet, it’s
easier.” - Zach

39. PART III
“Revenge”
Floods of decaying carcass dreams
tear open fragile woven seams
where once mistakes were justified,
yet now warm truth has nullified.

40. Only flashes came to me,
red
and
sticky

41. Awakening
contains
879,826
characters!

42. The Awakening Dictionary:
“Cycling”
cy·cle [sahy-kuhl]
1. A recurrent series of events or processes in plants and
animals: a life cycle ; a growth cycle ; a metabolic cycle
2. The process of blood flow throughout two Vampires as
they feed from each other

43. I’ll give you,
‘Wants to be stong’!
Right in your face!

44. Awakening took 2 months to write...
And almost 4 years to edit!
Damn procrastination!

45. “Personally,
I would have
slaughtered the
bitch.”
- Abbey

46. No characters are
NAMED
in the first
30 pages!

47. She was really
pretty... I wore her
face for a little bit.”
- Jordan

48. The Awakening Dictionary:
“Donor”
do·nor [doh-ner]
1. A person or animal providing blood, an organ, or other
biological tissue for transfusion or transplantation
2. A human who chooses to donate blood through direct
arterial/venous bleeding to a Vampire.

49. “Does the pope shit in the
woods?”
- Rebecca

50. Awakening was
officially published on
August 17th, 2012!

51. Rules for being a vampire:
1. Do not eat past the point of death
2. Do not eat blood that has come into contact with air
3. Do not eat food – it will rot inside of you
4. Fresh blood is essential
5. Human blood is essential... occasionally
6. Do not eat too much human blood – it will cause insanity
7. Bagged blood is reasonable substitute though it must be
sourced from a living donor, treated and cooled
8. Every animal and every human has a different taste. In
humans, this is largely affected by their diet. Find your
favourite and enjoy!

53. With Support
From:

57. Now available from CreateSpace
Click HERE to order!