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Martin blinked in incredulity and excalimed:<br>> You're kidding. I thought they were goners. I had to read the<br>> sentence several times before I realized they were being admitted INTO<br>> the morgue. I thought _that_ was the surprise, that they weren't<br>> toast.<br> <br>-turns bright red with embarrassment and waggles head emphatically-.<br> <br>Nope. Like I said, I was in a bit of a rush at the end. I distinctly <br>remember writing the lines about 'They never made it.' and thinking it <br>sounded like they died - and so I included the bit about Carl giving <br>himself concussion when he ran full tilt into the wall of the stairwell, <br>since getting concussion would only be important if he survived. And <br>then the line about being ushered into the morge turned up to revisit <br>the situation.<br> <br>Just between you and me and the rest of the internet, I think I my <br>bloodthirsty subconscious might have wanted them killed, and kept <br>throwing in phrasing that sounded distinctly fatal.<br> <br>---<br>Saxon Brenton<br> <br> <BR><div></div> </div></body>
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