Family Drama · fiction
Four Seats at the Ceremony
The remote clicked three times before my father finally spoke. Outside, rain struck the windows of my parents’ house in Branton, Ohio, turning the glass silver beneath the porch light. Inside, almost nothing had changed since I was seventeen. The same faded carpet ran through the living room. The same framed high-school photographs leaned...
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