The cutting hours

the long version

STALKING: the obsessive pursuit of a women by a man who will stop at nothing to possess her. Anyone can be a target.... Shay Wyoming is struggling to make ends meet on the income from her still-rare-sculpture commissions. A dedicated talented artist who brings passion to her work, she finds little passion in her life, except for her fierce love for her two children, Matt and Kelly. Tall, willowy Kelly is practically a carbon copy of her mother. Kelly is flattered by the attention she gets from Mickey McGee, who buzzes past her house every night, stares at her during lunch, and one miraculous day, lets her ride behind him on his motorcycle. She can't see that Mickeys darkness is more than skin deep. Kelly also can't see that she isn't really the one Mickey wants...