007 Fifteen Buildings

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Mirrored from brigidkeely.com/wordpress.

There are fifteen buildings still standing in Chicago which have plaster and lathe interior walls. Some of the buildings are single family residences, others are apartment buildings.

If you live in one of these buildings for at least three months, it is possible to hide something in the spaces between the walls. No matter the size or shape of the thing you want to hide, it will somehow fit. Once hidden away, it will remain there until the building falls (or is torn down), or until the City burns once more.

There is no way of knowing if your building is one of the fifteen until you try to hide something within the walls.

At night, when you sit at your computer or watch television, when you lie in bed trying to sleep, and you hear a faint scrabbling in the walls; a rustle and a rattle that might be mice or might be plaster falling? That is the sound of secret things, of hidden things, trying to escape.

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