The sound of his mom's screaming was splinters.
The sucking and bellowing sound of his dad's cursing was bone. It was windy bones.
His mom's face was glass.
His dad's hand was concrete
The stove was a tooth.
The sound a face makes when it melts is a cough.
The smell of burning skin was a hot thread.
The sound his dad's feet made on the sidewalk after the door shut was ashes.
The secret inside the sound was that he would never hear his dad again. This was all the different kinds of ashes.


back to the day he heard it
What happened while he was there, as he encoded it
encoded as a paragraph
encoded as a time line
the code's key
what happened