  After a marathon session lasting from 1PM to 3AM I have finished draft one of "Alive..." I am mourning my method of ending the book but it is for a greater purpose. Now begins the process of abandoning it for the next day or two while I reflect. I will begin editing Monday.
To those two beauties, Eve and Binks, I thank you for your reading of this rough draft and for allowing me to share this with you. Your encouragement has been a sustaining force for me while I bleed this one through. I hope that you will be happy with the ending but also angry that I have chosen to allow such suffering in my characters. I will be with you all again shortly on more thoughts but for now my brain needs to sleep. 
