Adventure · fiction
The Place Card Left Blank
The first thing I noticed when I walked into my sister’s promotion dinner wasn’t the chandelier, the polished silverware, or the expensive bottle of wine breathing beside my father’s elbow. It was the blank place card. Every other seat at the long private table had been prepared with almost ceremonial care. Captain Melody Strickland was printed...
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