I try to keep my faith alive, I'm close enough to trip the wire

TDC
Words today: 1435

76,571 / 90,000 (85.1%)

Reason for stopping: scene
Tyop: n/a
Darling: In the silence, she heard the soft wet sounds of the woman's ruined lung flopping inside her chest. Ahh, nothing like a sucking chest wound. Especially one that lasts forever.
Deaths: there was one in the last scene
Mean things: the embarrassment of fainting, stabbed in the gut

Less than 15k to go, I hope! Next we reveal the villains' dastardly plan, and then the mad scramble to the end starts. I hope.

Also, I finished painting the *(&@#^* upstairs bathroom today!

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