Rodrigo García Olza

TWELVE is one of the most important numbers in ancient cultures representing completeness, cosmic order, space and time -- a full circle. Card 12 of the Tarot is the Hanged Man, who is symbolic of self-sacrifice and meditation. Demons, witches, amulets, and generational curses: the Leviathan spirit disregards that one cannot drink the cup of the Lord and also the cup of demons -- cannot partake of the table of the Lord and of the table of demons. Rodrigo's brother, Livingston, continues therapy with a university psychiatrist whose occult past remains obscure. Demonic possession becomes a school of holiness inside the Mortuary on Alcatraz Island when the same priest once trapped in Purgatory with the ancient demon Suede returns after a long absence. Rodrigo and Liam joyously learn together to create their own love, produce their own meaning, and stay motivated by each other to share both laughter and terror. Like a virus, Liam has infected vampire Rodrigo with the tremendous excitement of living in the San Francisco Bay area: because Rodrigo has the fortitude to bear it. Their imminent union keeps the vampire motivated by an urgency to distract himself from his own inner turmoil, which releases anxiety quickly. But Luciferian/Satanic duality creeps mysteriously into the lives and dreams of characters to alter their reality.