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Three Hours Between Storms

A small town romance short story

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Three Hours Between Storms

By: Margot Dunmore
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Some things break clean. Some things take longer.

Cal Dempsey doesn't need fixing. He works, he shows up, he keeps the buildings of Harlow Cove standing. Two and a half years after losing his wife to cancer, he has arrived at something that functions well enough — a life reduced to the dimensions where grief can't find him. He is not looking for anything to change.

Then a nor'easter traps him at a stranger's cottage with a second storm stalled offshore, three hours of unexpected conversation, and a question nobody has asked him in a very long time: what was she like?

Three Hours Between Storms is a standalone short story set in the world of the Harlow Cove series — an introduction to Cal Dempsey eighteen months before he meets the woman who will change everything. No romance. No resolution. Just a widower on a damaged porch, a stalled storm, and the quiet moment when a person who has stopped noticing he's alive notices again.

For fans of emotionally resonant small-town fiction. Approximately 5,000 words.
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