Ove wasn’t sure what it was that made him refuse. Maybe because he didn’t like the tone of that letter from the council.
Or because the house was all he had left of his family.
Whatever the case, he parked his first very own car in the garden that evening
and sat in the driver’s seat for several hours, gazing at the house.
It was, to be blunt, decrepit. His father’s specialty had been machines, not building, and Ove was not much better himself.
These days he used only the kitchen and the little room leading off it,
while the entire second floor was slowly being turned into a recreational stamping ground for mice.
He watched the house from the car, as if hoping that it might start repairing itself if he waited patiently enough.
It lay exactly on the boundary between two municipal authorities, on a line on the map that would now be moved one way or the other.
It was the remnant of an extinguished little village at the edge of the forest,
next to the shining residential development into which people wearing suits had now moved with their families.
The suits didn’t like the lonely youth in the house due for demolition at the end of the street.
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