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Psychological Drama · fiction

The Twenty Days After Silence

At 2:17 in the morning, while I was lying in a hospital bed wondering whether my next breath would hurt more than the last one, my mother-in-law sent me a voice message about money. Not about my fever. Not about the oxygen tube that had been beneath my nose two days earlier. Not about the infection in my...

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Genre
Psychological 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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