A border control agent's job of interviewing refugees has left him jaded. Rather than focusing on the needs of each applicant, he raises a mental smokescreen as his thoughts drift to his next cigarette. 

When Nate and Mark agree to adopt two young brothers from the foster care system, their decision may come back to bite them. Soon after the boys arrive in their home, five year-old Andy and three year-old Ben exhibit strange behaviors that Mark suspects have only one explanation. They must be vampires.

Nate finds the vampire hypothesis to be ridiculous but agrees to a series of tests (their basset hound is not amused). The results prove more comical than conclusive. Each time Mark thinks he has an answer, he has to ask himself if his little vampires are really just acting like completely normal children.

NEW! "Our Monstrous Family" is also the inspiration behind the first scene in my one-act play, Little Monsters.

Photo by Matthew Olson-Roy