The Empty Street

You peer through the window. The street is completely deserted. No people, cars abandond with doors and trunks ajar. A newspaper lies on your neighbor's lawn, its headline unreadable from this distance. The movement catching your eye. Everything else is eerily frozen in time.

Then you see it. A thin wisp of black smoke is rising from a house a few blocks down. Is it really Somone else? Or just a fire? In this silence, it's the only sign of life you've seen.