another unused opening
by uzwi
There have been two mysterious events along the High Street since we came to live here. I say “mysterious” to mean: ask as we might, we couldn’t get anything out of the woman in the cheese shop over the road about what happened in either case. The first was a loud bang at perhaps three in the afternoon, followed by the sound of falling glass and a car alarm going off. Everyone came out of their shops and looked in the direction of the accident and shook their heads; but afterwards no one seemed keen to say anything about it.
The second event was less easy to parse, and took up much of a late afternoon and evening. Across from our sagging town house is an old mews, wider than an alley but not wide enough to be called a street, that runs past the back of the butcher’s for a few yards before diving steeply out of sight towards the river…
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Oh now that’s wicked – leaving us hanging like that! You’ll just have to go on and write the rest of it…. 🤣🤣
I will, if there’s ever a rest of it… But as it stands there’s such a lot more not there than there…