Family Drama · fiction
The Instructions Beneath His Desk
The first thing my brothers did at our father’s funeral was laugh at my dress. The second was tell me I had already lost. I stood beside the polished walnut coffin with one hand wrapped around the stem of a single red rose while rain hammered the chapel windows like fists. The sky outside had turned the...
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- Family Drama
- Audience
- Adult readers
- Chapters
- 5
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- fiction
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