The Inheritance
Family Drama · fiction

What the Evening News Revealed

The last handful of soil hit Thomas’s casket with a sound I knew I would hear for the rest of my life. Soft. Final. Almost polite. It seemed wrong that death could sound so small after taking a man who had filled every room he entered. I stood beneath a gray Swiss sky while cold rain slipped beneath the collar of my black coat. The cemetery sat...

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Genre
Family Drama
Audience
Adult readers
Chapters
6
Fiction status
fiction
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My Life Story Editorial

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The Inheritance

Chapters

  1. 01Chapter 1
  2. 02Chapter 2
  3. 03Chapter 3
  4. 04Chapter 4
  5. 05Chapter 5
  6. 06Chapter 6

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