All righty, folks, here's the fifth chapter of The Abalone Shell. You can catch up on the previous chapters here:

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Chapter 5
By noon the next day, Hope hadn’t yet recovered from her shock. She could not fathom the pain of losing her child, but her imagination had woken her in the middle of the night with a terrifying dream about her daughter and ex-husband crashing through the guardrail and plunging over the edge of a coastal cliff into darkness. After that, s...