Fallen
never leaving this room.
    Somehow, I get to my feet. I wipe my blood covered hands on my white shirt, then cover it by clasping my jacket closed with one hand. I need the other to brace myself against the wall and the doorjamb on my way out.
    I make my way down the stairs and onto the dance floor. Bodies swim around me, pulsing with the music and the low blue light of the skeet lamps. No one stops me. No one notices that I’m barely staying on my feet. I probably look like just another junkie.
    They’ll find the bodies later.
    By then I’ll be long gone, taking a Metro ride to an address that was whispered in my ear just yesterday. The only safe place I know.
    So I can start to figure out how to live with this.

 
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Your facebook-cheering and post-sharing and mandates to “write faster” are the best motivation. Special thanks go to Pete Westwood for letting me borrow his name for Anna’s evil manager, even though he’s not evil. My critique partners in this series—Dianne Salerni, Leigh T. Moore, and Matthew MacNish—have been a crucial part, every step of the way, of making this crazy-pants serial-writing thing work. I’m hugely indebted to them and their rapid-fire turn-arounds for critiques!
     
    If you’ve made it this far, you may recognize the elements of a novel in the structure of series to date. It’s not a coincidence that there are nine episodes and they’re bundled in sets of three—like a trilogy of three short novels or three acts in one very long tale. We’re about to embark on the final act, the third “book” in the set, and I promise (Episode 7 is called Promise after all), that there will be an “end” to Season One. As a writer, I hope it’s one that the reader won’t see coming, even for those who’ve marched every step of the way with me. And my wish is that it will make you glad you took the trip.
     
    We’ll see if I can pull that off…
     
    Thanks for taking the journey with me!

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