Status: Okay, so the whole 'get everything off my laptop' plan went to hell. The harddrive is messed up. All the chapters I'd written are gone. I don't think I'll delete ACA and I will probably continue it, but I can't say how long it will be before I do. I am considering redoing it completely.

A Cigarette Affair

Best laid plans.

Everything is exactly the same.

Nothing is different and yet, everything has changed.

Seven hours and twenty-three minutes and thirteen seconds is all the time it takes to make the decision.

Seven hours and twenty-three minutes is all the time it takes to plan everything out, down to the last, solitary detail.

Seven and some hours is all the time it takes.

And her death is set in motion.