Leslie Ann Moore

When there is a grand cause to be won, he said, sometimes, there are unavoidable casualties. None of us are happy about that, but it__ a painful reality. He paused and added, We__e all accepted our culpability_

The last remnants of Deanna the child--the idealist, the sheltered elite--had been torn loose by tonight's tragedies, slain with the same bullet that had felled her would-be killer. She had no idea who the new person inhabiting this shell of her old self would become. The realization frightened her.