CASH & CREDIT 6

It was raining, and it was time to leave the house.

So many of their dreams had been trampled into the dust in this place, yet they were heartbroken to be leaving, his Wife was especially shattered.

“It wasn’t real,” she said sadly, tears streaming down her face.

She had known only insecurity all her life, and it added to his own sense of anguish that he had only contributed further to her despair.

Bereft of furniture, the rooms stood silent, already a ghost of a place, the central heating closed down till the winter that would follow winter, the garden left to grow uncared for till the summer that followed summer.