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Wednesday, July 11, 2012

100 Words: House


There’s no such thing as silence. The hum of electricity. The whisper of a TV not yet turned on. The scrabble of mockingbird feet on a gutter. The quiet conversations the floorboards have with one another. And above it all, the sound of waiting – a house waiting for its people to tell it what to do. Even when they’re empty – no humans, no ghosts – you can hear the memories: a dropped piece of china, a laugh that got caught in a corner, the tattoo of children’s feet on the stairs. You can hear the wild taking over, the spiders and the vines and fungus. You can’t hear them, but the sounds are there all the same.

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