title: Wounds of the Past
author: Penelope Door
description: Penelope Door, a proud Brooklyn NYC native, now calls Cape Ann home. When Benjamin, her loyal puppy, is not demanding all of her time she is hard at work on her next work of fiction "Conviction" - a compelling novel about whether an ordinary couple's marriage can survive extraordinary allegations.
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  The cabins had turned to ash.
  The coke on the tables had burned too.
  A camp that had stood for a decade was now a graveyard. Some of
  the guards lived. Some had died. Most of the women got away,
  except a few we retrieved. The guards rode down the path lit by
  torches and rounded up the ones who’d fled. If they resisted, they
  were shot.
  I sat on a wooden bench that had survived and looked at what was
  left of the camp.
  And that wasn’t much.
  The night had passed, and now it was morning. The sun shone
  down, highlighting the damage.
  The damage she caused.
  My hands still shook in anger. My veins popped out of my arms. My
  entire face hurt because the muscles were so fucking tight. There
  were seldom times in my life when I got this angry.
  This might be the worst.
  I wanted to kill her.
  
  I stared at where she lay in the snow…and almost did it.
  I was too angry to kill her. Was tha