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FABLIVA · Long storyThe Inventory of Small LiesPsychological suspense · Literary mystery
For adults

The Inventory of Small Lies

Anna values the things people leave behind. In her late mother’s wardrobe, she finds the green coat her sister was supposedly wearing when she disappeared eighteen years ago. The discovery forces Anna to revisit the statement she signed at seventeen—and the family story she has helped keep intact ever since.

39 minute read · 10 chapters

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Long story · 10 chapters · 8,144 words

Available languages: English

Other language editions will follow after full translation and editing.

AI-assisted edition, checked for content and language by the AI assistant. Independent human native-language editing is still pending.

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My brother had put a price on the dining table before our mother was in the ground.

I didn’t hold that against him. I had put prices on worse things: a boy’s railway set, still laid out for a birthday he hadn’t reached; a wedding service with one place setting missing; a dialysis chair nobody wanted to touch. When people asked what my job was, I said I valued the contents of houses. Usually they heard houses.

Ben met me on the drive carrying two mugs.

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