Breaking And Entering
“She jiggled the doorknob. They never locked the house, but there it was, locked. Perhaps Landlord had come back. Landlord was, in fact, the landlord’s name, a person whom Liberty had never met, but who by his uncaring absence seemed generous enough. Willie dealt with him. Apparently the understanding was that Landlord might return, and when he did they’d have to find another place.
Webby matter fouled the jalousies. Large moths clung to the darkness beneath the eaves. Looking in the window, she... saw that the room was unchanged from the way she and Clem had left it when they had gone to the beach at noon. She pushed at the door once more, then returned to the street to study the house, surprised at how neglected it looked. A rusting hot-water heater, resembling a bomb, stood on the sagging side porch. Firecracker plant spilled out of the cracks in the foundation. The mailbox, which was stationed on a black chain coiling rigidly upward, dangled open, empty.
It had been in just such a mailbox years ago where she had found Clem, a puppy barely alive, his soiled shape filling up dark space.MoreLess
Webby matter fouled the jalousies. Large moths clung to the darkness beneath the eaves. Looking in the window, she... saw that the room was unchanged from the way she and Clem had left it when they had gone to the beach at noon. She pushed at the door once more, then returned to the street to study the house, surprised at how neglected it looked. A rusting hot-water heater, resembling a bomb, stood on the sagging side porch. Firecracker plant spilled out of the cracks in the foundation. The mailbox, which was stationed on a black chain coiling rigidly upward, dangled open, empty.
It had been in just such a mailbox years ago where she had found Clem, a puppy barely alive, his soiled shape filling up dark space.MoreLess
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