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The House on Cherry Street
05/13/2026
The House on Cherry Street
Jennifer reads her award-winning short story, The House on Cherry Street. In this tender short story set in the aftermath of World War I, elderly Charlotte returns to her childhood home on Cherry Street one last time — not merely to retrieve a forgotten trunk, but to deliver a lifeline to her grieving grandniece Betsy, whose young husband has just fallen in the war. As Charlotte moves through the rooms where she came of age, she unspools a long-held secret: the story of her own wartime love, her devastating loss, and the autumn night in the attic when a mockingbird singing out of season pulled her back from the edge of despair. Lyrical and quietly profound, The House on Cherry Street is a story about the stubborn persistence of love across generations — and the faith that grief, however deep, need not have the final word.
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