Family Secrets
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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Genre
Family Drama
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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