Service and Homecoming
Hope & Kindness · fiction

The Wallet Beneath the Bus Bench

I was eight years old when I learned that doing the right thing could be more frightening than doing the wrong one. The wallet was lying beneath a rusty bus bench on Aldridge Street, half-covered by dust and a crumpled fast-food wrapper. I almost walked past it. Mom had asked me to hurry home after school...

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Genre
Hope & Kindness
Audience
Adult readers
Chapters
6
Fiction status
fiction
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My Life Story Editorial

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

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