Service and Homecoming
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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Genre
Family Drama
Audience
Adult readers
Chapters
6
Fiction status
fiction
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My Life Story Editorial

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Service and Homecoming

Chapters

  1. 01Chapter 1
  2. 02Chapter 2
  3. 03Chapter 3
  4. 04Chapter 4
  5. 05Chapter 5
  6. 06Chapter 6

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