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Smugglers (The Maskheads Series, #1)
Chapter Three.
This is a speculative fiction series comprised of three books. One chapter will be released every Wednesday, with links to previous and next chapters when applicable.
It happened too fast for me to have any initial emotion. Mama John was yelling “Oh my god! Oh my god!” She instinctively held me closer, as if trying to protect me from what had happened on the television set.
I could clutch her as I breathed., so I did. All of us were screaming uncontrollably at that point. We must have been. All of us up and down the street, screams ringing from the windows. Everyone must have been watching the show and yelling their heads off. That’s how it felt.
Amazingly, the camera kept rolling even after Lady Four shot herself. By now the aides had rushed to her side, pushing the chalkboard away and wiping the blood out of her hair. “Ave Maria” started playing again, like it usually did at the end of the show. But there was no fadeout. The camera didn’t stop rolling, so we were forced to watch the assistants wail and try to stop the blood in the stark lighting. Lady Four just lay there. She looked so beautiful, Nothing like I expected a dead body to look. It was hard to believe that she was gone.
