G. Rench

The next house lights in --:--:--

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December 13 to 24

The Twelve Days of Westhaven

One house a day. Comedy first. The dread arrives on schedule. Drag or swipe the street to look around. Some doors are not yours to open yet.

Twelve houses on one street, numbered by the day they open. Past a fence at the end of the road, up its own small hill, there is a thirteenth thing that never does.

Behind the last door

Day 12 opens Cindy's Notebook: a twelve-year-old's tallies of an ordinary town, kept faithfully right up to the page she tore out.

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A vintage souvenir postcard reading Greetings from Westhaven, a snow-roofed town under a full moon with one trailer alone on the hill.

Placeholder door. The finished artifact arrives on its day.