Maddy

Maddy wakes up one day and takes a bottle of sleeping pills. She goes to sleep and wakes up one day and takes a bottle of sleeping pills. Some of us are slaves to our rituals, and sometimes those rituals are stronger than our desire to break them. "Maddy" is a tale of despair, a tale of desperation, and a tale of a ritual so ingrained it supersedes even death. Originally published as "Monday" at fiction365 in 2011. C. Dennis Moore is the author of the Angel Hill novels, the Monsters of Green Lake series, as well as the Holiday Horrors. He lives in St. Joseph, MO with his wife, Kara. They have seven children and three grandchildren.