Family Drama · fiction
The Stars Were Never the Point
At exactly 1:12 in the morning, my phone rang. I had been asleep for less than two hours. At sixty-two, I had learned to wake quickly. Thirty-seven years in the United States Army had trained my body to recognize certain sounds before my mind had time to catch up. An alarm. A knock at the door. A voice cracking over a...
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- Genre
- Family Drama
- Audience
- Adult readers
- Chapters
- 6
- Fiction status
- fiction
- Editorial responsibility
- My Life Story Editorial
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