The Light Bleeder: A short story

SHORT STORIES ABOUT MURDER, INCLUDING MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE
In these stories there is a killing early on, someone is accused of murder, or a major character has murderous plans.
"She had a moment of clarity, sharp and hard, that pierced the fogginess of her thinking: this is what it's going to be like from now on. I will live in fear of every man, of every stray sound, of every footstep in the dark, of every shadow in the night."