The Long Loss
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Last published Sat, Jan 11, 2025
Ava Thorpe lost her parents to a car collision when she was eight years of age, hence her grandparents holding custody over her and her four-year-old sister and three-year-old brother.
Later on in life, at the age of eighteen, losing her grandparents was even tougher than losing her biological parents. With them gone and all the fortunes that they owned left behind, everything was left to Ava and her siblings.
Now, at the age of 22, living on her farm with her sibling that she eventually won custody of, she has it all.
Her farm house is too far away from any town or city resulting in her siblings attending a boarding school.
She's all alone everyday, far away from civilization with only her cattle and the man on the radio to keep her company.
From a distance, the view of the mountains is magnificent - breathtaking even.
With crop filled land on one side of her home, horses and cattle at the back, and a vast amount of land naturally molded into a forest over the years on the other, there's nothing out of the ordinary that you'd find.
Being the natural farm girl that she is, she hardly finds anything terrifying, but when she stumbles upon a man rummaging through her kitchen and and cleaning out her fridge, she doesn't know what to think or do but to aim.
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