Fic: Raise the Curtain, Martha Rodgers (Castle)

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Title: Raise the Curtain
Author: lauriestein
Rating: G
Characters: Martha
Disclaimer: Not mine, not stealing, no profits being made.
Spoilers: Nothing past season 1
Prompt: opening night written for zeldaophelia
Summary: In the space of a day, everything's gone.  Martha still has to face the crowd.


This place puts the off in off(-off)-Broadway, that's for damn sure.  Martha reaches for the weak martini that's been slowly evaporating in the hot, airless closet that masquerades as a dressing room and knocks the rest back in one gulp.  The crackling murmur over the tannoy signals the impending half-hour call before the bored stage manager can utter the words.

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