The Unwanted Wife's Last Breath

ads through our small rust-belt town

Gabrielle is a tragic victim, a runaway who shamed the family and has now returned, broken and in need of salvation. It' s

ion and his own family' s image, decides to stag

onference at the front

Mrs. Gable forces a bitter liquid down my throat. It makes my

ered clothes, and shove me in front of the crowd of rep

vely around a beautifully dressed Gabrielle. She lo

ooming with authority. "There have been many vicious

ester. She has endured a terrible ordeal, but she has

murmurs,

tly at me. His face is c

le Fuller. The disgraced sister who ran off and brought shame upon us a

my tangled hair, my vacant, drugged eyes. They compare me

belie

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the stat

r is filled with garbage. Rotten vegetables, wadded-up paper, mud

sion stern and approving. He meets my eye for a mome

to save his perfect