Days Like Today (2013)
“Neither of them said anything until they were inside.
It was dark, dirty and squalid. Every corner stank.
‘Well, at least it’s still here,’ his wife said. ‘And they left the roof on.’ Some regions weren’t so lucky: everything had been burned to the ground. He’d already heard that his parents’ house – on the other side of town – was gone; it was like knowing that a friend had died. And now every time he remembered, the loss grieved him. He never wanted to go back: to look at the hole in ...the ground where the house had stood or, worse still, to see some other building put up to replace it. The old schoolhouse was burned out, too.
The churches remained, although the windows were broken and fires had been lit in the interiors. But it isn’t easy to burn stone. The houses and temples of God are usually built to withstand anything but a direct hit; the house of stone and the heart of stone.
His wife looked everywhere: the walls, floor, ceilings, the staircase and the rooms upstairs.MoreLess
It was dark, dirty and squalid. Every corner stank.
‘Well, at least it’s still here,’ his wife said. ‘And they left the roof on.’ Some regions weren’t so lucky: everything had been burned to the ground. He’d already heard that his parents’ house – on the other side of town – was gone; it was like knowing that a friend had died. And now every time he remembered, the loss grieved him. He never wanted to go back: to look at the hole in ...the ground where the house had stood or, worse still, to see some other building put up to replace it. The old schoolhouse was burned out, too.
The churches remained, although the windows were broken and fires had been lit in the interiors. But it isn’t easy to burn stone. The houses and temples of God are usually built to withstand anything but a direct hit; the house of stone and the heart of stone.
His wife looked everywhere: the walls, floor, ceilings, the staircase and the rooms upstairs.MoreLess
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