Seventeen - A Short Story

Wynn Ray

Summary

This is a short story.
 
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In a small town where whispered rumors flow like water, two women are locked in a seventeen-year dance of grief, guilt, and unspoken truths.
 
Marina measures her life in seventeens: the number of cracks etched in her pristine pool, her age when her Olympic dreams were shattered, and the years spent watching her silent neighbor through windows that reveal too much and too little.
 
Seventeen. All, seventeen.
 
But when a late-night disturbance breaks the surface of Marina’s pool, she must finally confront the question that has haunted her for seventeen years: Is she anchored by loyalty to her pain, or drowning in the depths of unfinished battles?
 
*A haunting exploration of trauma, redemption, and the invisible threads that bind us to our darkest moments—even when we long to break free.

Available since: 02/04/2025.

Print length: 44 pages.

Contemporary Fiction

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