Military Homecomings
Adventure · fiction

An Invitation for the Living

The invitation had never been meant for me. I knew that before I ever unfolded it. The thick ivory envelope had arrived at a military recovery facility outside Washington forty-eight hours after I came back from an overseas extraction that officially did not exist. My name was nowhere on the envelope. It had been forwarded through an old...

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Adventure
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6
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Military Homecomings

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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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