Service and Homecoming
Family Drama · fiction

The Photograph Behind the Lamp

My father called me on a Thursday afternoon, three days before my younger brother’s engagement dinner. The first thing I noticed when I walked into his study was that every photograph of me had somehow become harder to see. The framed picture from the morning I received my commission in the Army had been...

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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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