Evolution of a Sad Woman by Author Gale Laure Excerpts:
*When she lies on her back, tears run from her eyes, down to her ears and into the back of her hair. Yet she is not crying. She will not sob . . . Gently, she parts her full lips to breathe and sucks in the air. She is not sad because she is finally in control. Kizzy jumps as the CD player in the living room clicks off. Only the sound of the rain pervades the air.
*Suddenly, she hears the rattle of a doorknob turning, coming from the living room. Someone has entered her apartment through the locked door. As she musters the energy she has left, she stands beside the bed with terror filling her very being. Her legs are shaking.
*She can barely see him as he enters. She is afraid, really deep down afraid. Death has not seemed frightening, earlier, but now the actuality of death is terrifying to her. She tries to speak and cannot . . . Her mouth is so tightly clenched, she cannot separate her teeth. The pills have left her defenseless. He towers over her.
*Desperately, Kizzy's shaking hand clutches onto his gloved hand. Beneath their two hands, the knife pushes deeply into her flesh. She can feel the blade against her rib bone. By pushing toward him on his hand with her hand, she tries to inhibit the knife from plunging deeper. However, she is too weak.
*Evan prays that Pete has to be wrong! The words keep blaring in his head. Evan can feel the pressure in his temples intensifying. He cannot bear the idea that this is her. She was the love of his life. No! Damn! She is the love of his life. That fact would never change! No other woman ever compared to Kiz.
*William rides in the cab through the rain, listening to the windshield wipers swish . . . . The love of his life has died. He cannot understand how this has happened. She was young, and oh, so picturesque. She should have been coming to upstate New York to his funeral . . . . The Houston humidity is killing him. This must be the hottest place on earth. He peers out the side window, remembering the first time he saw Kizzy. | 
