Writing prompt: The old house …

Today’s writing prompt and my response.

The old house, with its wildly overgrown garden, was silent, secretive

Jamie didn’t like it, not one bit. No one would find him here.

It was so far from anywhere that She had allowed him to ‘escape’ outside. He was sure She watched him, from the peeling door or through the cracked dirt-streaked glass of a downstairs window.

Watched or not, perhaps there was a way out. He explored the grounds as far as the high brick wall which surrounded the gard...