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The old house : It was a grey two story house with white trim around he windows. The RR tracks interrupted the normal grid of the streets and this short street had only two structures on it. The house and an older model mobile home that looked equally abandoned. The mobile home was sitting on cememt blocks and was to tall for me to see in any of the windows. The door was locked.

The house stood on a small square of overgrown lawn. A picket fence marked the boundaries of the yard. A picket fence, that had once been white was now a weathered grey marked the boundaries of the yard.
Most of the ground floor windows were boarded up with plywood. The front door was partly open, the top hinges had been ripped out of the wood frame. Along the right side of the house, about half way back a small room jutted out from the house.
One of the few ground floor windows that had not been boarded up revealed a bedroom.
This room had been ransacked, the contesnts of the dresser drawers were scattered on the floor and the bed. The drawers themselves were stacked haphazardly by the closet door.
The closet still held a few garments. M I could just barely see a night stand on the other side of the bed. . Around the back of the house was a small closed in porch. The door was firmly closed and locked.

As time went by I wanted to explore the inside of the house. A winter passed and when I drove by the house I could see that the weather or more vandals were taking a toll on the old house. The front door now was merely propped against the door frame. Weeds and vines were growing up and covering the door way as if to make a door to replace the one More of the second story windows had been broken and now were boarded up. I was strange though that some of the broken windows were left broken and uncovered.




I pushed open the front door just enough so I could squeeze thru.
In front of me was a hall leading to the back of the house. On the right side of the hall was a staircase leading to the second floor. This staircase ran along the outside wall of the house.
On the left side of the hall was a set of French doors leading to a living room and the bedroom that I had seen from the outside. I opted for the stair case first. I gingerly tested each step before putting my full weight on it.
The stairs were sturdy and didn’t even creak.
At the top of the stairs I found myself in the kitchen of an apartment. At the top of the stairs was a small dining room table and two chairs. The table was made of wood and was painted white. The chair frames were made of metal tubing and the back and seat were made of green plastic . Beside the table





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