100 Word Story: Falling

 “They say her house fell into the lake.”

Angela liked telling this story, everybody stopping their walk through the woods to hear more.

“It was on a bluff and then the bluff eroded and the house was lost.”

Was it a landslide or an earthquake they asked but she gave no answer. Instead, she crept over to the edge and gestured ‘come here.’

Below, there were three silver gulls, all dead with broken wings. Like they’d gotten in a fight with a coyote or some other creature that roams the beach. There was no trace of wood or the furniture.

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