When the Devil Drives Page 5

  He pulled back and gave me a desperate look. “Will you be here when I get home?”

  “No.” And before he could react I added, “But I’ll be here when I’m done at work.”

  “Okay!” he shouted and ran out of the room.

  Niobe approached me, tail dragging behind her. “So, are you really back?”

  “Yes.”

  “What changed your mind?”

  I thought about the child who was soon going to be without a father and felt a tug of guilt.

  “I realized I didn’t need to be a hero to my son or to you. I just needed to be here.”

  About the Author

  Melinda Snodgrass was a story editor and executive script consultant on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Her acclaimed episode, “The Measure of a Man,” was nominated for the Writer’s Guild Award for outstanding writing in a drama series. With George R. R. Martin, she cocreated the popular Wild Cards series of shared-world novels and anthologies. She lives in New Mexico. You can sign up for email updates here.

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  About the Author

  Copyright

  Copyright © 2017 by Melinda Snodgrass

  Art copyright © 2017 by John Picacio