The House Behind the Fence

Face Was Unclear

The first time I saw the photograph, I thought someone had made a mistake.

It was an old photograph, the kind people usually throw away without looking twice. It was sitting at the bottom of a cardboard box in my mother’s attic, buried beneath birthday cards, broken Christmas decorations, and a stack of letters tied together with a faded blue ribbon.

The photograph showed a garden.

Nothing unusual.

Just a small backyard with an old wooden fence, a patch of overgrown grass, and the corner of a brick house disappearing into the darkness. It looked like hundreds of other gardens in the neighborhood where I grew up.

But standing in the middle of that garden was a woman.

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Nimra Khan — original fiction published on RapidTale.