Half-collapsed houses everywhere, broken windows and sagging roofs letting in twenty years of leaves and rain. Never anything good in the cupboards, not anymore: picked clean ages ago, or spoiled. Don't hardly go in anymore, not safe. Except sometimes, looking for clothes.
The kids' rooms are the worst, even when the kids are long gone, not even bones left. Toys all over the floor, drawers pulled out, bed crooked and linens soaked and rotted to a sickly brown, mushrooms growing in the corner. Just seems wrong, more wrong. I want to clean them up, but of course I never do.
Intriguing, holding, even a bit wise.
ReplyDeleteInteresting to contemplate what cleaning up things in such an obvious state of decay would entail - or even why the story's narrator would contemplate it.
ReplyDeleteMaybe he/she was a parent...
DeleteThe Walking Dead is almost back. The children's rooms always freak me out way more too.
ReplyDeleteYeah the one [spoiler] got [spoiler] in especially...
DeleteSomehow abandoned houses always seems haunted
ReplyDeleteThey're definitely creepy! :)
DeleteNo bones left ion the children's bedrooms! What was going on there?
ReplyDeleteRosey Pinkerton's blog
I think there may be a clue in the title :)
DeleteStrange to think that this place has been cleaned out... but it is far from clean. Quite a haunting paradox.
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading :)
DeleteThanks for reading and commenting :)
ReplyDeleteSomething has been gnawing in the corners
ReplyDeleteOf the room, or of my brain? :)
DeleteSadly, this is more often the case for some families. Excellent write.
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading :)
DeleteIf those walls could talk, what story would they tell...sadly there are many homes falling apart for various reasons...
ReplyDeleteI feel like the story would involve zombies. :)
Deleteinteresting write up, nice to read
ReplyDeleteA Small Home
Thanks!
Deletethat is so touching..
ReplyDeleteI appreciate the kind words :)
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