It's Not the End by Matt Moore

Author:Matt Moore [Moore, Matt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-77148-451-0
Publisher: ChiZine Publications
Published: 2018-06-08T16:00:00+00:00

Sometimes Arthur parked in the shade of the oaks across the street from the house where he’d lived with Jacqueline. Paint flaked off the porch, leaving a patchwork of rotting bare wood. With several of the panes broken, the city had slapped plywood over the lower floor windows several months back. Since his last visit, a section of iron railing had collapsed into the yard.

Most days he’d just look before continuing on to a shoot. With Laurel’s help, he’d used the profit from selling his house to set up a small shop in the Garden District where he specialized in architecture. Working first with Connie and then her connections, his stylized photos made listings stand out. And sometimes, through personal referrals, he did the occasional wedding. When he could, he sent business to Reggie, who’d been successful with that other partner.

But today, he grabbed his camera off the passenger seat and got out. According to Connie, a young Internet millionaire had bought the property. On Monday, demolition would start to make way for a new, modern home.

Pacing the sidewalk, he searched for the perfect angle to capture the yellowing, overgrown grass sticking up through the railing’s rusted lattice. Close up, narrow field—a symbol of the inevitable fall of people’s constructions to the passing of time and nature.

Bronwyn and Owen had lived in his house for nearly six years. He never knew if the Lumleys heard voices, but suspected the next occupants—Caroline and Michael Deveraux according to the city records Connie had checked—had. They’d lasted three months before moving out. Watching the housing listings, he’d seen his house up for sale three more times in the space of two years before it had become abandoned.

He looked up, backing away until he found the perfect angle to shoot the master bedroom’s shattered windows for the last time. Whether Jacqueline still spoke her string of broken predictions to the empty room, he didn’t know.

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