novel – By Autumn Rain

Alice and the Warden – 25

I’m reaching the end of what I had written up before I had my baby in real life. I’m still

When she heard the front door open, Alice slowly slid off the bed, careful not to wake her baby, then

Hackett needed to run to the grocery store, but Alice wanted to stay home. Crying had left her with a

Hackett joined Alice in her room that night, and sat on her bed with his arms wrapped around her as

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By the way . . . I didn’t forget. So, before I disappear off the face of the planet for

Alice felt the first painful tightening of her uterus after she laid down with the intent to sleep, and her

Hackett arranged to have the prison’s school teacher tutor Alice privately on the weekend, and she was delighted to discover

Alice watched Spring mature into summer through the window of her tower room, and missed the feeling of breathing in

Elias couldn’t shake the strange sensation that was overtaking him, the feeling that the future was shaping itself in that

Setting down the spatula, still laden with chocolate frosting, Elias calmly turned to face his death. -The Black Magus, by