Girls Running From Houses

The girl is a student. She is untidy. All she wants is a knife.

On a rainy day, the girl is fleeing the house. Meanwhile, the house hides its occupants from the sun.

On a Tuesday, the girl is racing from the house. Yet the house lets in the weather.

The house is threatened with conversion into a museum. The girl will only hasten its preservation.

She arrives at the house tracing the smuggler, who forged an invitation, and who might be incautious.

The house will provide to the girl all that she most fears and desires, arguably.

Dreams flicker in the garden.

The panels of the staircases are ringed with eyeless cherubs, but nobody else seems to notice.

Intrepid reader, prepare yourself: there is every chance the girl will not flee in time.

Water stains. Soot. Sea shells.

The house is here through a tragic error, and the hermit is efficient, and the girl is among friends, but unable to see them.

The neighbours are said to have been helpful.

The house will stand despite the removal of its foundation. Its shadow will haunt her on her deathbed. And the truth will be revealed.

The house was built on a disputed boundary.

The lord of the manor is talented.

A long time later, before dawn, the girl will think of you, dear reader.

The girl discovers the house through careful study, and explores it guided by the thin trail of smoke from a candle.

Like the worst of the girls before her, she is always candlelit.

In the kitchen, the girl makes her plans. Yet twisted trees slither in the the library.

The traveller is her obsessive admirer.

When she leaves the house, she will wear a stolen coat and a scabbard, and the rusty sword from above the fireplace, and the marks of a criminal.

She is escaping the house amidst chaos, near a site of ancient significance, with the seed of an obsession.

The house was constructed at the meeting-place of two rivers.

In the library, the girl is in company, and then she flees the house, at last.

The house is self-interested.

All she wants is steady employment.

The fate of the house turns on the alliance between the girl and the housekeeper.

The house is symbolic of possessiveness.

The house is dove-minded. It is threatened with conversion into a hospice.

She is irresponsible.