What the River Took
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MatureOngoing6m
Last published Sun, Oct 12, 2025
Inside their crumbling house, anger rules. Their father, Victor, a man worn thin by drink and ghosts, lashes out more each day. Charles, not yet a man but forced to act like one, fights back with fists and fury. And Wood - quiet, observant, and lost in memory - clings to the hope that something better might still come.
When violence erupts one evening in front of the youngest children for the first time, everything begins to unravel.
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