Twenty-two years can't destroy a picture painted in blood.
Blood. The tie that binds so many, and breaks them all at once. The ruby liquid may very well be considered a crimson killer… and yet, it sustains the life of thousands.
The scarlet lifeforce, turned into lifelessness so quickly. Not on its own… rather, by those that lust for it.
The blood of Gomez Addams boiled with passion for his black angel. His children, the family they had created… the gothic bliss they had adored to call home… meant happiness.
However, Mr. Addams history… the history he had not thought about, in years. The history he had prayed, he should never have to relive (in any way) again; has finally caught up with him.
Not only has his history caught up with him.
It has resurrected from the grave of his long-since buried past, emerged from the shadows… and fallen, through the rain… landing at his doorstep.
Previously copywritten works mentioned and/or used in Blood Ties, Blood Lies:
1. "I Know I'm a Wolf" Young Heretics (lyrics)
2. (disclaimer) There is a fanfiction by Da.Monktato entitled, Bloody Love. There is no correlation between that fanfiction the poem of the same title in Blood Ties, Blood Lies.
3. "Vampire Smile" Kyla la Grange (lyrics)
4. "The Tell-Tale Heart" Edgar Allen Poe (excerpt and lines)
5. "The Raven" Edgar Allen Poe (excerpt and lines)