An Elderly Couple Watched Their House From Afar Until Everything Changed

bed.

The porch was gone. The front windows were boarded. Scorch marks climbed the siding above the door like dark fingers reaching for the second floor. But the structure stood.

They walked around the side, through the yard where Helen’s garden bed sat undisturbed under winter mulch, up the steps of the deck Walt had spent three summers building.

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