this morning #1497.
this morning, in the absence of any actual insight into the family whose home had burned down a few days ago, rumors & theories swelled up & started spreading around town. in particular, the husband was a dealer of some sort. guns. drugs. something scandalous. the fire was intentional. revenge for a deal that’d gone sideways. the chechen mob was involved. one tall tale told of the wife’s sketchy ancestry. said that’s why she keeps to herself. home-schools her kids. that’s not even their actual last name. they had to change it after what went down in the last place they’d lived. the whole town was abuzz. turns out, all their suspicions were not that far off from the truth. they’d find that out soon.