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her throat, clustered at her ears. Angela, her golden hair softly coiffed, her legs crossed, her hands folded together
over the right arm of the chair.
It was Angela. Oh yes, there was no mistaking it. Even though her face had been destroyed.
Blood was splattered over the pink silk and joined by more that ran almost leisurely down from where that lovely,
canny face should be.
It was then Deanna began to scream.















Chapter One
Chicago, 1990

In five, four, three ...
Deanna smiled at the camera from her corner of the set of Midday News. "Our guest this afternoon is Jonathan
Monroe, a local author who has just published a book titled I Want Mine." She lifted the slim volume from the small
round table between the chairs, angling it toward Camera Two. "Jonathan, you've subtitled this book Healthy
Selfishness. What inspired you to write about a trait most people consider a character flaw?"
"Well, Deanna." He chuckled, a small man with a sunny smile who was sweating profusely under the lights. "I
wanted mine."
Good answer, she thought, but it was obvious he wasn't going to elaborate without a little prompting. "And who
doesn't, if we're honest?" she said, trying to loosen him up with a sense of comradeship. "Jonathan, you state in your
book that this healthy selfishness is quashed by parents and caregivers, right from the nursery."



"Exactly." His frozen, brilliant smile remained fixed while his eyes darted in panic.
Deanna shifted subtly, laying her hand over his rigid fingers just under camera range. Her eyes radiated interest, her
touch communicated support. "You believe the demand of adults that children share toys sets an unnatural
precedent." She gave his hand an encouraging squeeze. "Don't you feel that sharing is a basic form of courtesy?"
"Not at all." And he began to tell her why. Though his explanations were delivered in fits and starts, she was able to
smooth over the awkwardness, guiding him through the three-minute-fifteen-second spot.
"That's I Want Mine, by Jonathan Monroe," she said to the camera, winding up. "Available in your bookstores now.
Thank you so much for joining us today, Jonathan."
"It was a pleasure. As a side note, I'm currently working on my second book, Get Out of My Way, I Was Here First.
It's about healthy aggression."