In the hollow silence of a military deployment, the house begins to change. A moved chair. A refilled coffee pot. A book returned to its shelf. While she tries to rationalize the impossible as the byproduct of stress and isolation, the house continues to breathe on its own. This is a story about the thin veil between what we know and what we feel, and the heavy reality of a different kind of blackout.

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Narrated by: Julie using the words of Misty Hamilton Smith.

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A trek into the high, thin air of the soul and the jagged edges of a survival found in the beauty of what remains.

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A journey through a landscape of sharp edges and glittering shards where survival is found in the beauty of what remains.

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A story of a world where the very air has turned against the living and the heavy silence of a town left hollow by what remains.

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A story of a sky that refuses to fade and the heavy silence of a landscape reclaiming its space.