Energy savings. Homestead builders. Serving the community. Family owned. Patio chairs. Scatterings of seeds. A dead hand. A dead phone. A call never made. Green overalls: signifying what? A flat tire on the workman’s van, no visible damage, supports the theory that it’s the consequence of a slow leak, meaning that the van has been at this location for a while, detective work, the house abandoned, a double-hung window replacement leaning up against the front door, no one home, has anyone ever been home, close your eyes and the house disappears back through the years, Meadowcroft Rockshelter, Cordilleran Ice Sheet, Pleistocene epoch, no house, no convenience store, only grassland, striated by ice, occasional trees, no van. Time recovers its footing. The dead hand moves around the dead phone which is suddenly illuminated. Thousands of satisfied customers.
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