The Wistful Silence
The mud gave way. That was the first thing. Not the sound of the scream, nor the flash of the flare, but the earth itself deciding to swallow me whole. I sank to my knees in the slurry of the garden, the damp cold seeping through the wool of my trousers. The garden. It was no longer a garden. It was a crater. A bowl of black clay and broken roots. I looked up. The house stood there. The...
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