Military & Action · fiction
The Mother Beyond Their Stories
By the time Briggs Calder decided I needed to be taught a lesson, the hamburgers were already burning. Nobody noticed. My father was telling one of his old fishing stories near the grill. My mother was rearranging bowls of potato salad as though presentation might somehow prevent the mayonnaise from melting in the July heat. Children ran...
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- Military & Action
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- Adult readers
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- 6
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- fiction
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