Military Homecomings
Adventure · fiction

They Finally Made Room for Erin

My name is Erin Callahan, and after fifteen years away, the first thing my family did was make certain I understood they had built a version of home where there was no place for my name. I had imagined coming back hundreds of times. Sometimes, during long nights overseas when sleep refused to come, I pictured my mother opening the door and...

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Adventure
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Adult readers
Chapters
6
Fiction status
fiction
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My Life Story Editorial

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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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