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Family Drama · fiction

Five Places at the Picnic Table

The black SUV rolled through the wrought-iron gates of the Remington property beneath a sky the color of old steel. I had imagined this return more times than I wanted to admit. Sometimes, in those imagined versions, I was angry. Sometimes I was frightened. Once or twice, during the hardest years, I imagined myself driving straight past those...

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

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