{ Part 1 } I came home from deployment three days early. My daughter wasn’t in her room.

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is in the backyard, for nocturnal reflection,” Myrtle sneered, her eyes sharp with religious extremism.

I bolted through the back door, sprinting across the frost-covered grass. “Emma!” I roared. A tiny, shattered whimper echoed from the tree line. I thumbed my flashlight on, the LED beam sweeping across the grass before abruptly slamming into a void continue reading …

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