Summary:

Pre-AOD. Kurtis is struggling to make sense of his feelings after the sudden death of his father. A familiar song brings back painful memories.

Excerpt:

After the wake I had walked without aim until I ended up here, slumped on a stool with both elbows on the bar, staring at the hot tip of my cigarette as it edged towards my fingers. The look on my face must have warned the bartender against trying to coax conversation from me. My second Jack Daniel’s arrived silently in a squat round glass, replacing the crumpled bill I had laid on the bar. Until that song began I had hardly noticed music playing, just barely registering the sounds around me through a fog of disbelief.

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Summary:

When you’ve gone to hell and back to save the world and received nothing in return, do you continue to martyr yourself in the face of a selfish reward, or do you take it? Where does your conscience draw the line?

Excerpt:

What bothered her was that he’d got on and achieved things, things that were supposed to be important, and she’d just stayed still and done the same thing forever and now she was just left behind. Left behind without anyone to stay behind with her. Left behind because she’d done the right thing.

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