decommissioned system.
My mother remarked that it looked “too strange to be normal.”
And me?
I couldn’t help but wonder why this pipe was sticking out of the wall like that.
The strangest part
We had never noticed it before.
We walk past this wall almost every day.
Yet, it felt as though it had suddenly appeared overnight.
Even the paint around it looked a bit different—as if someone had touched it or opened something up there.
Out of curiosity, I tapped the pipe lightly.I leaned in closer, I
