Courtroom Truths
Family Drama · fiction

The Petition Due Monday

At exactly 1:00 a.m., someone knocked on my front door. Not rang the bell. Knocked. Three weak, uneven sounds that barely carried through the rain pounding against the windows of my house outside Phoenix. I had been asleep on the couch with the television running low, something I had done more often since retiring from the...

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Genre
Family Drama
Audience
Adult readers
Chapters
6
Fiction status
fiction
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My Life Story Editorial

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Courtroom Truths

Chapters

  1. 01Chapter 1
  2. 02Chapter 2
  3. 03Chapter 3
  4. 04Chapter 4
  5. 05Chapter 5
  6. 06Chapter 6

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