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This is an excerpt from my new two books series The Rise and Fall of Skye Wright<\/a><\/strong>. This excerpt is from the first book.<\/p>\n

This excerpt is early the book. This piece introduces Molly Mix, Skye’s friend and reluctant recovering addict. <\/p>\n

This work is the continuation of the Skye Wright saga, and follows her adventures from her previous novel Stella Maris<\/a> which is a sequel to What the Hell Ever Happened to Yuri Rozhenko?<\/a>, both available on Amazon.com. This is also a work-in-progress so any feedback is appreciated.<\/p>\n

You can buy this series here!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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One day at a time. Sweet Jesus.
\nWhoever wrote that one hadn\u2019t a clue.
\nA day is a fuckin\u2019 eternity<\/p>\n

Roddy Doyle – From the novel Paula Spencer<\/em> <\/center><\/p>\n

     Slumped in her seat, Skye tried paying attention to the speaker.
\n     Molly Mix was sitting right next to her. Molly was barely moving, pointing her thick glasses and prominent nose towards the floor, showing her short, spiked black hair to the speaker. Skye could feel her skin buzzing. Molly was edgy. Molly was nervous. Skye could tell by the way she was sitting and tightly folding her arms. There was also the suppressed but obviously pained expression on her face. Even her hair seem to be nervous.
\n     They were at the Gilman club meeting, the only twelve step meeting Skye had ever been to that was held in a night club. Every square inch of the small club’s walls were caked with graffiti, band stickers, show flyers, and artwork. A prominent weekend club that was infamous in the punk, metal, thrash, and alternative scenes, it lent its space twice a week to Narcotics Anonymous meetings, and was quite popular with those recovering addicts who were part of those scenes.
\n     The place was full, mostly with punks and heavy metal headbangers. The rest of the crowd were the more typical twelve steppers who weren’t necessarily from those hard rock cultures. That meeting was not unlike the other alternative meetings, the Trevor House meetings, which was the other popular rock and roll meeting space.
\n     They were listening to a heavily tattooed punk in all-black clothing and a black baseball hat share. At least Skye was trying to listen. Molly was distracting her.
\n     When the speaker was done and the secretary opened the meeting for general shares, Skye nudged Molly. Molly flinched. Skye looked right at her with wide eyes. Molly shook her head.
\n     Someone started sharing. When they were done Skye shot her hand up. The secretary pointed at her.
\n     \u201cMy name is Skye and I’m a grateful recovering addict.\u201d
\n     The room gave the traditional greeting in unison. \u201cHi Skye.\u201d
\n     \u201cOr Skye high as they used to say.\u201d Skye was pleased when a few people laughed. \u201cI recently celebrated my first year clean.\u201d
\n     The room gave a standard round of applause. A few people in the back let out some congratulatory whoops.
\n     \u201cWhat can I say. In the last year I’ve managed to nail down a good job, I’ve managed to ground myself with some new friendships, and I’ve also discovered some old friends I lost track of. I found them again, right here in these rooms.\u201d
\n     Skye made sure she looked around the room as she spoke. She did not want to stare straight ahead or make anyone feel as if she weren’t talking to them.
\n     \u201cIt was a challenge for sure. I had just indulged in some pretty gnarly behavior before I came into these rooms, getting drunk and high and cheating on my boyfriend with jailbait. That’s right, I said jailbait! True story. It’s not just a guy thing. I was working at a job that I hated and didn’t pay me enough, and I kept losing my temper all of the time. Okay, yeah, the temper thing is something I’m still working on.\u201d Skye made a face. \u201cI’m getting better at controlling my temper. I’m also studying German, a language that a long lost friend of mine had taken up, a friend of mine who uped and disappeared not too long ago.\u201d
\n     Skye glanced at Molly who did not glance back.
\n     \u201cMy friend who disappeared was one of my oldest friends. She was the leader of my high school gang. She’s the one who introduced me to drinking, to speed, to getting into fights, to getting into trouble, and all of that. That’s how I think of her sometimes. But she also introduce me to music, to wild and crazy music that I love to this day. Her family took me in after I ran away from home, and her biker dad was like a father to me. And I said she taught me how to get into trouble, and that’s one way of putting it, but she also taught me how to fight, and how to stand up for myself, and how to stick together with my friends, with my crew. So, to honor my missing friend, wherever the hell she is, I’m learning to speak German. Und das ist kein Witz!\u201d Skye looked around the room one more time before turning to Molly.
\n      \u201cIn any case, my name is Skye, thanks for letting me share. And my friend Molly is next!\u201d
\n     Skye pointed at Molly who shot her a wide-eyed look. Skye could not tell if Molly looked angry or scared or possibly just surprised.
\n     \u201cHello,\u201d stuttered Molly. \u201cMy name is Molly and I’m a recovering addict.\u201d
\n     Molly looked uncomfortable when everyone greeted her in unison.
\n     \u201cI’m really here because I have friends who pick on me to step up and come out. I guess, I mean, I know I’ve got a problem. It would be hard to not admit that, especially when I was hanging out against a wall with winos not too long ago.\u201d
\n     Molly put her head down and brought it back up. \u201cI got pulled off that wall…\u201d She stumbled and glanced at Skye. \u201cBy a friend. Someone who for reasons I can’t even begin to imagine decided not to give up on me.\u201d Molly fumbled with her fingers. \u201cBecause, too many people gave up on me.\u201d
\n     Molly became quiet. Skye sat still, carefully watching her out of the corner of her eye.
\n     \u201cI’m doin’ okay. I’m stayin’ at a friend’s house, and my new wave band is doing well. We have a couple of shows lined up, and I’m really lookin’ forward to that. The only thing I really need right now is a steady job. Or a lottery win maybe.\u201d A couple of people laughed. \u201cSo yeah, lookin’ for work.\u201d
\n     Skye could have sworn she saw a tear welling up in her eye.
\n     \u201cThat’s all I got,\u201d blurted Molly. \u201cAt least, for the moment.\u201d
\n     The secretary started the clapping, getting everyone else to applaud.
\n     Molly elbowed Skye and gave her an irritated look.
\n     Skye tried her best not to smile.<\/p>\n

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ ~~ ~ ~~ ~ ~~ ~ ~<\/center><\/p>\n

     \u201cYou put me on the spot,\u201d protested Molly through a cloud of cigarette smoke.
\n     \u201cLee said you needed to start sharing at meetings,\u201d said Skye.
\n     \u201cLee’s not here.\u201d
\n     \u201cI know. Just think of me as her clean and sober torpedo.\u201d
\n     Molly shook her head. \u201cI don’t know what I’m gonna do with the two of you.\u201d
\n     \u201cYou’ll hate us now but love us later.\u201d
\n     \u201cI already love you, you fucking bitch!\u201d
\n     \u201cThat’s it, keep it classy,\u201d smiled Skye.
\n     Skye and Molly watched as people left the meeting. A few circles of friends were outside the Gilman club, chatting and smoking.
\n     Skye observed the various meeting people as they mingled and conversed through cigarette smoke and vaping clouds, talking and chatting casually. Skye thought they looked like the crowds that would congregate outside of Gilman in between bands during their weekend shows.
\n     Skye knew or at least recognized virtually everyone from the meeting. Some were original punk scenesters. Many of them she recognized from the old days, the club hanger-ons that were at almost every one of the countless number of shows that Skye had attended. She recognized them even though they had not been part of her crew back then. Those were the people she had never really talked to until she saw them again in the Narcotics Anonymous rooms.
\n     She was surprised how many of them had remembered her, and her reputation.
\n     Many others she did not really know until she got into the rooms, but they were still kindred spirits. She only had to see an Exploited skull tattoo or an Operation Ivy patch or a plumage of hair dyed in an unnatural color to form a quick bond or connection.
\n     Skye already knew Molly from her clubbing days, the infamous singer of the legendary punk band Bus Stop Hookers.
\n     \u201cI was wonderin’ if you’ve talked to Harp lately,\u201d asked Skye.
\n     Molly brought her head up, looking as if Skye had just said something unexpected.
\n     \u201cDamn, I haven’t heard from her in a while,\u201d said Molly. \u201cI should zap her a text.\u201d
\n     \u201cI’m still drivin’ her car. I borrowed it from her four weeks ago and she hasn’t asked for it back yet.\u201d
\n     \u201cEh. She always zooms around on her cycle.\u201d
\n     Skye shuffled her feet. \u201cI’m kinda worried about her.\u201d
\n     \u201cHow so?\u201d
\n     \u201cI dunno. She’s like, a little more sketchy lately. A little more flaky and out of sorts, which is kinda weird for her. She’s always been so confident before.\u201d
\n     Molly slowly nodded. \u201cHarp maybe seemed confident, but really she’s always been kinda on the edge what with her drinkin’ and screwin’ around.\u201d
\n     \u201cYeah, sure, but lately she seems just, I dunno, kinda different. She doesn’t have her usual swagger.\u201d
\n     Molly turned to Skye. \u201cTruth is I pretty much stopped hearing from her when I quit drinkin’ an’ doin’ drugs. She told me it was because she knew I was tryin’ to stay clean, but I know what she really meant.\u201d
\n     \u201cThose party animals don’t like bein’ around sober people.\u201d
\n     Molly looked out at the milling punks across the street. \u201cIt’s fuckin’ crazy. I’m such a train wreck when I drink. I mean, fuck, you’ve pulled me off of a warehouse roof and a liquor store wall when I was smashed. If you hadn’t found me I might’ve plunged to my death off of that rave warehouse, or drank myself to death in an alley.\u201d Molly flicked away her cigarette . \u201cThere are people who actually want me to keep drinking, people who don’t want to be around me when I’m stone cold sober. It’s fucking insane. They can’t handle sober Molly. They actually want that fabulous disaster Molly. That’s the Molly they’re comfortable with.\u201d She shook her head. \u201cIt’s fuckin’ insane. It just really tells you what alcoholics are really like. It’s just… sick.\u201d
\n     Skye scrunched herself up as a gust of wind kicked up. \u201cYou should say that at a meeting.\u201d
\n     Molly looked up as if she had just had a revelation. \u201cHey, yeah! I should share that, right?\u201d
\n     \u201cNext time.\u201d
\n     \u201cOnly if Lee’s here.\u201d
\n     \u201cShit, you wanna try and impress the boss, right?\u201d
\n     Molly broke out into a grin. \u201cShe’s not supposed to be our boss you know. She’s just another glorious member of Narcotics Anonymous.\u201d
\n     \u201cFuck me Molly. You know that’s bullshit. Lee is the boss. A lot of that NA crap about principles is simply horseshit. That’s not how the real world works, even in those rooms.\u201d
\n     \u201cYou don’t have to tell me that twice,\u201d said Molly as the lights in the club across the street flickered on and off, letting everyone know that it was time to leave.
\n     Skye and Molly walked across the street and stood among the milling NA members. They gave out their ritual rounds of see-you-laters to their clean and sober comrades.
\n     They were walking back to Skye’s car when Molly suddenly turned to Skye.
\n     \u201cCan’t you be my sponsor?\u201d
\n     Skye looked at Molly with with surprise. \u201cDamn Molly, I’m barely up on this shit as it is. You need to hook up with someone who’s got a lot more experience than I do.\u201d
\n     \u201cShit, you’re the one who bitched at me to do this.\u201d
\n     \u201cYeah, I know. But I just did that because I had to do something.\u201d
\n     \u201cYou did?\u201d
\n     \u201cA’ course. Whattaya think?\u201d
\n     Molly held her hands up. \u201cYou are the one who convinced me to start coming to these meetings. An’ you aren’t always on my ass like my current sponsor.\u201d
\n     \u201cYou gettin’ tired of Lee?\u201d
\n     Molly bobbed her head around and shrugged. \u201cWell, she’s always buggin’ me. I feel like I’m getting picked on.\u201d
\n     \u201cThat’s what she’s supposed to do.\u201d
\n     \u201cShe keeps tellin’ me I’m on the edge.\u201d
\n     \u201cAren’t you?\u201d
\n     Molly slumped in her seat as Skye started the car. \u201cMaybe. Sometimes I think I need someone who can let up on me once in a while, not hover over me so much.\u201d
\n     Skye glanced at Molly. \u201cThat’s what you need though, right? Someone who won’t let up? Who won’t let you slide back down?\u201d
\n     \u201cDas macht mir kein Spass!\u201d declared Molly with a demonstrative finger.
\n     \u201cSpass?\u201d asked Skye.
\n     \u201cDas bedeutet ‘fun’.\u201d
\n     \u201cGotcha. Wir m\u00fcssen Spass machen.\u201d
\n     \u201cSehr gut! Your German is getting better.\u201d
\n     \u201cYeah. Toby is a good teacher.\u201d
\n     Before Skye drove off she got out her cell and typed out a quick text. \u201cLee you fucker, where the fuck have you been? We need to go to a meeting together sometime soon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Buy the Rise and Fall series here:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0B3WBDZP2<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Buy Stella Maris on Amazon, Skye’s story right before The Rise and Fall of Skye Wright<\/strong>. Free for Kindle Unlimited users!<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Stella Maris is the sequel to my previous novel. Even though it can be read by itself, check out what Skye was up to before her adventures in Stella Maris!<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/What-Hell-Ever-Happened-Rozhenko-ebook\/dp\/B08WC4DK6G\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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