Laura Cody ~ 4 min read ~ The following was an entry in the TL;DR Word Herd 2024 1K Challenge. My task was to create a 1000-word story using the prompts “dealer” and “stained glass window.” This story won 7th-place in the overall competition and was published in the anthology Figments and Fragments. The first day I met Nate, he told me he was going to kill his dealer.  I took it with a grain of salt.  I’d been adrift for a while, floating between rock-bottom and moderate dysfunctionality after an epic bender had landed me back in Al-Anon. At forty-two days into recovery, I was keeping distance from my…