Sunday, February 9, 2025

Order

 

Order

Everything was in order.

Her house was clean, her laundry was done (and put away), and there were fresh flowers impeccably arranged on the table.

She’d washed the windows, keeping an eye on the world from the neat little house she and her late husband had built after they married. So many memories, good and bad (mostly good) were here in this place that had sheltered her family and all their friends for three quarters of a century.

She felt tired but content, sitting in her rocker, chained to the giant oak in the front yard, waiting on the bulldozer.

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