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Burning Down the House
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Burning Down the House
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Some of you may have noticed an item in the news today about some nut who escaped from jail, shot some cops and broke into a home in a small farm town, upstate New York. As the suspect held himself up in the house, special forces surrounded the joint, exchanging gunfire with the nut-case and subsequently barraging the house with teargas. At which point, the house caught fire and burned to its doom, allegedly with the guy still inside.
What the fuck, that was my aunt's house. I haven't been there in quite some time - but I have fond memories from over a decade ago - of sitting on that front porch during thunderstorms with my cousins as we marveled at the wrath of nature. Or that one night that everyone in the house (except myself) swore that they had an encounter during the night with the ghost of a family member that everyone who had stayed at the house (with the exception of only myself) had met . I guess we'll just have to do that stuff somewhere else now. But, I'm just thinking about this - why did that ass have to choose this particular house? And come on Johnny Law, can't you procure a suspect from a physical structure without burning the sucker to the ground? At least my uncle doesn't have to fix all that stuff that needed fixin' now.
Stay away from my house...and Stay Tuned.
-- Silent K
4 comments:
That is the craziest thing I have read in a blog...ever!
My condolences. What a way to have your house go out. Is the city going to pay for it?
It was my Aunt/Uncle's 2nd home - been in the fam for a while - I'm sure home owner's insurance will do something. I've no idea what if anything the gov't would pay for. We'll find out.
No one is homeless due to this event. That doesn't negate the fact that it still sucks!
So long as they have "crazy ass shit" coverage. It's often overlooked, like coverage for flood damage.
In the essay "Against Epiphanies," and others with such titles as "Rhyming Action" and "Talking Forks: Fiction and the Inner Life of Objects," Baxter cites the work of Joyce, Woolf, Flannery O'Connor, Chekhov, Donald Barthelme, William Maxwell and Grace Paley to illustrate his views of how fiction is done best.
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