In this chapter Alec and Rene' get married, but problems crop up almost immediately.

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What happens to the family left behind to pick up the pieces of a tragic suicide? That is the question that haunted me the day I heard of a local kid who'd used a shotgun to kill himself in his own apartment, and thus this story was born. It gets heavy, but as in all of my writing, there is a silver lining and a happy ending no matter how unorthodox.

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This episode is also available as a blog post: http://corner-catch.com/2019/11/18/alec-a-novella-chapter-3-of-10/