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You come home one night, worn out by another day of hard work and not falling back into bad habits, to find the woman you love has left you. What now?
A short story about addictions that never quite dry out and wounds that never heal.
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Patrick O'Duffy
Patrick O'Duffy is tall, Australian and a professional editor, although not always in that order. He has written role-playing games, short fiction, a little journalism and freelance non-fiction, and is currently working on a novel, although frankly not working hard enough. He loves off-kilter fiction, Batman comics and his wife, and finds this whole writing-about-yourself-in-the-third-person thing difficult to take seriously.
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