Military Homecomings
Adventure · fiction

The Trident He Placed Beside Her

The first thing Dr. Adrian Mercer noticed about me was my size. The second was my silence. The third was the arm I had spent three months learning not to look at. He sat across from me in a Navy medical evaluation room beneath the blue-and-gold seal of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, scrolling through my electronic...

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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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