ASIN: B005Y62AJE
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 103
Accepting a job in a new city, Dan Hill has just moved his wife and 4 year-old daughter into an ordinary-looking duplex. The appliances are avocado, the carpet sea-foam green, and the fine layer of ash beneath the shrubberies is from the house that used to stand there.“Well that’s a funny thing,” the Hill’s new neighbor tells Dan. “The house caught fire and the oldest boy thought his sister was still inside. He went in to get her, but never made it back out. The rest of the family — the little girl included — all came through with relatively minor stuff: scrapes and bruises, smoke inhalation… It was just the one boy who died, burned up… 14 or 15 years old, I think.”He let the story trail off, shaking his head.“Not the sort of thing they like to advertise, is it?” He leaned back into his lounge chair, considering the small border of earth around the patio. “It’s here though, if you dig. ...
