There Will Come Soft Rains

Question 1

T M H L E.

Answer 1

“The morning house lay empty.”

Question 2

T F S O P - T M, T W, T C, T B - R. T R W A T C L.

Answer 2

“The five spots of paint – the man, the woman, the children, the ball – remained. The rest was a thin charcoaled layer.”

Question 3

T D, O H A F, B N G T B A C W S, M I T T H, T M.

Answer 3

“The dog, once huge and fleshy, but now gone to bone and covered with sores, moved in through the house, tracking mud.”

Question 4

T D R U, H Y T E D, A L R, A T H R, T O S W H.

Answer 4

“The dog ran upstairs, hysterically yelping to each door, at last realising, as the house realised, that only silence was here.”

Question 5

A T O-C T H B T D.

Answer 5

“At ten o’clock the house began to die.”

Question 6

B T F W C.

Answer 6

“But the fire was clever.”

Question 7

T A B W D T P W S I B S O T B.

Answer 7

“The attic brain which directed the pumps was shattered into bronze shrapnel on the beams.”

Question 8

[…] O B O B, I B S C F T H, I W, I N R

Answer 8

“[…] oak bone on bone, its bared skeleton cringing from the heat, its wire, its nerves revealed”