Second Chances
Military & Action · fiction

Twelve Dollars at the Hospital Door

Five days after my C-section, my husband handed me twelve dollars outside St. Vincent’s Hospital and told me to take a city bus home with our newborn. For several seconds, I honestly thought I had misunderstood him. Manhattan traffic rolled past the hospital entrance in impatient waves. Taxis leaned on their horns. A...

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Genre
Military & Action
Audience
Adult readers
Chapters
6
Fiction status
fiction
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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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