title: Everyday Morality: An Introduction to Applied Ethics
author:  Mike W. Martin 
description: Mike W. Martin is Professor of Philosophy at Chapman University (Orange, California). He is the author of many articles in applied ethics, and he is author, coauthor, or editor of ten books, most recently FROM MORALITY TO MENTAL HEALTH: VIRTUE AND VICE IN A THERAPEUTIC CULTURE (from Oxford University Press).
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  MORALITY
  
  
  Stephen King
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Chad knew something was up as soon as he walked in. Nora was home already. Her
  hours were from eleven to five, six days a week; the way it usually worked, he
  got home from school at four and had dinner on when she came in around six.
  
  
  She was sitting on the fire escape, where he went to smoke, and she had some
  paperwork in her hands. He looked at the refrigerator and saw that the e-mail
  printout Was gone from beneath the magnet that had been holding it in place
  for almost four months.,
  
  
  “Hey, you,” she said. “Come on out here.’ She paused. “Bring your butts, if
  you want.”
  
  
  He was down to just a pack a week, but that didn’t make her like his habit any
  better. The health issue was part of it, but the expense was an even bigger
  part. Every cigarette was forty cents up in smoke.
  
  
  He climbed out and sat down bewilder’. She had changed into jeans and one of
  her old blouses, so she had been home for a while. Stranger and stranger.
  
  
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