His girlfriend, Antonia, is deeply in love with him -- an unrequited love. She wants him desperately and is willing to hurt him in the name of this love. It is her ultimate undoing. Colette, Antonia's friend, and also a practitioner of the black arts, is an opportunist who has used Damien and is using Antonia, as well, toward her own ends. She discards people easily, but not vindictively. Damien hates her for this -- and for the ease with which she moves through life -- and vows that she will be the first victim. He is mistaken for it is Samuel, the Jew boy, who is his first victim...and a victim whom he loves. And, it is with the murder of Samuel that Damien acquires a conscience...to his everlasting grief.

The Dying God: Chronicle of a Vampire is, if effect almost two separate plays that combine to form one path toward its ultimate conclusion of murder and betrayal. It is in the second half of the play that the enigmatic character of Bayla Ortiz is further developed. Cornfield is introduced -- a man who is the embodiment of cold and calculating cruelty, but with a tragic flaw -- a flaw that involves a lost love of many lifetimes ago with the young woman, Deanna.

My play embodies the concepts of immortality and re-incarnation -- and how neither one may be very desirable -- and how either one can be used as a weapon of destruction.