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Monday, March 14, 2022

The Last One Home

 Fiction by Victoria Helen Stone


This story is told from the perspective of Donna in 1985 and her daughter Lauren in 2021. Donna was 35 when she found out she was pregnant after an affair with Michael, a married man. She decided to keep the baby (Lauren, of course) and went to Sacramento, Michael's hometown when he promised (again) to leave his wife for her. But it turned out that Donna wasn't Michael's only mistress, and she ended up raising baby Lauren alone.

Now Lauren is back in Sacramento and living in her father's family home, trying to unravel what really happened between her parents. There's a murder involved, and the story is supposed to be a thriller, but it was pretty slow-moving. I didn't really buy the surprise ending, either.

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