Military Homecomings
Adventure · fiction

Both of Us Had Keys

The first thing I saw when I returned from overseas was my wife freezing in the snow. The second thing I saw was my mother standing inside a warm house, drinking wine while she watched Kathleen struggle to protect our baby. A brutal Minneapolis blizzard delayed my flight by nearly nine hours. By the time the military transport reached the...

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Genre
Adventure
Audience
Adult readers
Chapters
4
Fiction status
fiction
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Military Homecomings

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  2. 02Chapter 2
  3. 03Chapter 3
  4. 04Chapter 4

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