The old house was torn down and the piano was moved out into...

Alone in a small house outside of town lived a woman whose few possessions included an old upright piano

Its keys were worn and its wooden frame bore the markings of a lifetimes worth of being played being moved and being played some more

On it the woman composed beautiful haunting pieces and played them everyday

But it was music that only she heard as her children were all grown and her husband had passed on long ago

Each melody told a story of love but also of loneliness and of the unspoken language that only music can convey

Years went by and the women slowly grew older

One evening as she played she felt a stirring deep inside her

Slowly she laid her head down on the pianos dark wooden surface took a slow breath and breathed no more

She was discovered the next day and arrangements were made to remove her from the house to be buried