The Weight of Water

Three estranged sisters return to the lake house where their family quietly fell apart, and finally have to say why.

• Literary family drama set over one summer at a lake house
• Three estranged sisters forced back by their mother's estate
• Decades of unspoken truths surfacing over one humid week

“Maren Colby was refilling her water glass in a kitchen four hundred miles from the one she'd grown up in when her phone lit up with her cousin Denise's name, and she knew, before she'd even answered, that whatever was coming would have something to do with the river. "It's bad this time," Denise said, without preamble, the particular flatness in her voice the same flatness the whole family used when a thing was too large to dress up with adjectives.”

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Length: A full short story — about 25–35 minutes to read.

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