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Cathleen C

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From the Ashes

Submitted to Contest #163

Cathleen McNamara Callahan From the Ashes A fire whistle wails and my heart pounds, sweat forming in the palms of my hands. Deep inside me is a fear I can’t shake: those fire engines are coming for me. It began with a home, an old Victorian three-story brown shingle, white-trimmed “cottage” with a gambrel roof and a wide, wrap-around porch. Constructed in the 1800s  with a large columned portico it sat on the south side of Main Street in a small Long Island town. Mature trees canopied the street it was on, which led to ...

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