Family Drama · fiction
The Empty Chair at Dinner
At 7:38 on a freezing Thursday night, Mara Ellison Vascari sat alone at the far end of a twelve-seat dining table, one hand beneath her eight-month pregnant belly and the other resting beside a small silver gift box. The candles had burned low enough for wax to spill down their holders. Rosemary chicken cooled beneath a...
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