The house has been married before. It keeps its spouses in the walls.Tom and Callum flip houses. Six of them, four months each, never lost money. Callum walks in first, the way he always does, hands a little out from his sides, listening to something below hearing. Tom revises the floor plan, which is always wrong. At number 14 the missing rooms are upstairs, behind a locked door, where a made bed waits with clean white sheets in a house that has stood empty for six months....

He scrubs the grout at three in the morning and he doesn't remember installing it.Dean has been a plumber for twenty-two years. He parks two streets from every job and has never known why. He checks his phone every seven minutes, even where there's no signal. He came to number 14 for a routine survey, found a bathroom that smelled like the inside of a mouth, and crouched to inspect grout that rang under his tool like it had teeth in it. It does.What the house offers Dean is...

Sable has spent twelve years convincing grieving families their loved ones are still in the room. She is very good at it. She has never once believed it.She comes to number 14 alone, for the attic. The listing has been pulled and relisted three times, each at a lower price, each showing the same photograph of the hatch and nothing above it. She lets herself in. She climbs. The attic is twelve metres long where it should be eight, and longer again when she measures it the other way,...

The kitchen is making bread, and it is using her to do it.Nour rented the terrace because the restaurant closed and there was nowhere else to go. The agency called the kitchen "basic." Within four hours she was cooking in it at eleven at night, because the room wanted something and stock was the only thing she knew how to give. She has never once been able to throw away a bone. She has forty-seven bags of stock in storage and no idea why she keeps them. The kitchen knows why.

She wakes with something moving behind her teeth.Mara has come home to bury her mother and empty the house: the narrow terrace on the coast where she grew up, where the nursery at the top of the stairs still holds a dead child's mobile and a cot no one ever took down. She means to sort the Denby mugs and the folded Radio Times and be back in London by the weekend. That was nine days ago. She has stopped counting the days well.The wallpaper has begun to breathe. The taste in...

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