A snippet from "As Told By The Other Woman"

“No!” she screamed as she sat up in her bed, heart racing, in a cold sweat.  She sat for a moment to get her bearings, as she massaged her temples trying to get the smell of gunpowder and blood out of her nostrils.

"It was only a dream…it was only a dream,” she murmured over and over again until she finally started to believe it.

Going back to sleep was out of the question, so she just sat on her bed and rocked herself softly, trying to forget about the sound of the gunshot and the brain matter splattering all over the wall.

“I’m not crazy, just a bad dream…she’ll be here in the morning, and then it’ll be alright,” she reassured herself. “She’ll make them understand.”

The reporter who wrote the story on Marion Hayes was coming to see her tomorrow, and she couldn’t wait.  There had been too many sleepless nights.  She knew that once she was able to tell her story, then she too could find peace.  Maybe.

“She’ll make them understand,” she whispered, as she looked at the star filled sky through the bars on her window.

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