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The Story Of A House: A Sleep Story for Kids

Little Stories for Tiny People: Anytime and bedtime stories for kids

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The House's Memory

The house sleeps fitfully for a few weeks on tender hooks, expecting the people to come back. After several weeks of quiet, she slips deeper into a troubled slumber. Late spring comes, bringing heat and damp. The sounds of lawn mowers and the buzzing of weed wackers come and go. But it is the sound of a mallet hitting wood that finally jostles the house from its stupor. She sees a man, one of the people who visited her, hammering a sign into the ground. A for sale sign. Decades shrink to nothing as the house's long memory carries her back, far back, to when another mallet hit another for sale sign

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