Everlasting true love insists on tragedy, consuming the fuel of its own passion, but inevitably and always eventually diluted by the quotidian trio of negligence, jealousy and circumstance. Everything any of us want to believe about love we’ve lazily cribbed from tortured poets or car commercials. In those fantasies, there are no bills, snotty noses, bad bosses, rabid ex-spouses, illness or unrelentingly loss. Read more about how The Cowboy and the Vampire (a love story) came to be.