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an angel but in the dark - Alex Broun

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12CLAIRE:ALAN:KARL:CLAIRE:KARL:ALAN:KARL:CLAIRE:ALAN :No one must believe this.I feel cold <strong>an</strong>d empty <strong>an</strong>d will never lose that feel<strong>in</strong>g.“I was cry<strong>in</strong>g profusely.”C<strong>an</strong> believe this.“I lay on <strong>the</strong> grass <strong>an</strong>d looked at <strong>the</strong> sky.”As <strong>the</strong> judge sentenced him he said:“You are arrog<strong>an</strong>t, m<strong>an</strong>ipulative, <strong>an</strong>d you are highly d<strong>an</strong>gerous.”The way he said it made me wonder which one of those threehe was receiv<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> thirty years for.Kate was so vibr<strong>an</strong>t <strong>an</strong>d full of life.CLAIRE: What’s <strong>the</strong> po<strong>in</strong>t of liv<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> this world if this is <strong>the</strong> way of this world ?ALAN: What must it have felt like dur<strong>in</strong>g those last seconds –CLAIRE:ALAN:CLAIRE:ALAN:CLAIRE:KARL:If events like this c<strong>an</strong> occur.Do occur.as she was savagely struck down?If men like Karl Taylor c<strong>an</strong> just murder my daughterThe sheer terror <strong>an</strong>d confusion.<strong>the</strong>n write a letter talk<strong>in</strong>g about “birds s<strong>in</strong>g<strong>in</strong>g” <strong>an</strong>d “flowersgrow<strong>in</strong>g”.An <strong>an</strong>gelALAN: Is that how you see yourself Karl ?CLAIRE:I keep hav<strong>in</strong>g nightmares.ALAN: An <strong>an</strong>gel ?KARL:CLAIRE:ALAN:<strong>but</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>dark</strong>.I see him.The knife.Kate.The sheer terror <strong>an</strong>d confusion.

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