The Return

“Where your fear is, there is your task,” Carl Jung.

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THE RETURN: March 2018

Rusty door hinges squawked as Chloe Masters tiptoed into her childhood home. Through the dimness, she saw black mold crawling the walls and flies swarming appliances made decades before the digital revolution.

Back in third grade, she scampered in this room to find her mother sitting on the couch, waxy…