That Large Cottage

That large cottage was nothing more than the sum of many houses built side by side over the years, in an alternation of stairs and terraces, windows and balconies with closed arches. It was shaped like a large piece of shapeless cheese, with many irregular holes, in a succession of empty and empty spaces, like gruyere. Spaces that, in the shape of eyes, shone with intermittently swaying yellow lights. They gave the whole scene something spooky. It was as if from those windows, from those recessed arches and from those protruding balconies, the burning flames of hell swayed within those walls.