Inside Was a Maze of Darkness
Emergency responders had to shine their flashlights just to see.
Every surface — the walls, the floors, the windows — had disappeared beneath towering, unstable stacks of possessions:
- entire forests of plastic bags
- heaps of rotting books
- broken dolls with missing eyes
- piles of clothing forming walls
- dishes fossilized with food from another era
Dust hung in the air like fog.
The house felt… alive. Breathing. Watching.
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And through a thin, winding pathway carved between the piles, Margaret shuffled slowly, her tiny frame swallowed by the shadows.
“I know where everything is,” she whispered.
“But everything I loved is gone.”