Family Drama · fiction
The Door That Held Through the Storm
At 1:57 a.m., the lake disappeared. One minute, I could see the faint silver shape of the water beyond the bay windows. The next, rain came down so hard that the entire world outside turned black. I stood barefoot in my kitchen, surrounded by unopened moving boxes, listening to the storm pound against the roof of the house I...
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- Adult readers
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- 6
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- fiction
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