/tags/mmff/Recent content in MMFF on Gromet's Plaza ArchiveHugoen-usSat, 30 May 2026 20:13:46 +0000/stories/2015/10/30/the-building/Fri, 30 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000/stories/2015/10/30/the-building/<p>Copyright © 2015 AmyAmy and all that stuff. All rights reserved. This work may not be reproduced for profit or without this attribution.</p> <p>The building broods where the cloverleaf junction meets the railway tracks, squat and massive, dominating the crossroads. Its position no coincidence, at the conflux of concrete and steel, where the ghosts of murderers cannot find their way back to take their revenge.</p> <p>Up where the warehouses cower beneath screaming graffiti and vast pillars carry the arcs of the highway far overhead, where waste-grounds of abandoned development projects give way to weeds and squatter camps, the building hefts and spreads its tentacles.</p>/stories/1/01/01/cubby-2/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000/stories/1/01/01/cubby-2/<p>(story continues from <a href="cubby.html"><strong>Cubby</strong></a>)</p> <p><strong>Part Two</strong></p> <p>I’ve been on a dirt road for twenty minutes with no sign of life, who knew Hill Billie’s would be into this. Must beat watching cars rust.</p> <p>A single-story farm house comes into view, it’s small but elegant. The foundation plantings are perfectly manicured and the white clapboard siding, French windows and red tile roof complete the fairytale look. A barn and several out-buildings stand in the background.</p>