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The woman outside—hands still smeared with blood—stormed past her and slapped me across the face. "YOU'RE the one who shot my dog with this thing?"
I stared at Mom in disbelief. She flinched, looked away. A few seconds later, her eyes slid back to me, pleading.
I do not look back after the hotel vanishes behind the bend of the coastal road. The Gulf Shores night slides past the …
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When I was ten years old, I once cried and begged my mother and grandmother to go next door and formally ask for the ne…
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