Gary LeBel
Cumming, Georgia, U.S.A.

Staircase

There’s a brief interval of a month or so in North Georgia when furnaces and air conditioners are put to sleep, and the house is as quiet as an outgrown toy: reveries stumble about in broad daylight looking for homes they never had, and sometimes when you descend the stairs it startles you so, that big silence, that you trip and fall

right into the middle of your life