#513 Pool Night- Amy Hempel
I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen rain. This is a story about a family's loss, regret, and time. They have experienced a house fire and a flood.
“When the wires touched the water, that part of town went
black. This was the thing we watched—the city going dark along the path of the
flood…It was not supposed to reach us…and then it did.”
Nobody thinks tragedy will happen to them. Now that it has,
they look for answers and memories in a photo book, the one they still have.
Each person has their own view of time:
-What I lose will always be lost.
-His problem is the past…he says only do things you have
done before and liked.
-I thought the present was the safer bet.
-We can only die in the future…right now we are always
alive.
-I made those seconds live.
Fire and water, some things we cannot control, but some we
can.
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