Hand

You get to the demolition site. The village has already been levelled. One tiled-roof house is still standing.

The foreman says a day is plenty. It isn't a big house.

But no excavator is coming. The road is too narrow, he says. It has to be done by hand.

Back room, kitchen, shed, rear yard, and the inside of the main house — all of it down before dark. Where do you start?

And the more of it you take down, the stranger this house gets…