Original drabble: "Winter, Our Roof" (G)

[hsavinien]

Title: Winter, Our Roof
Author: H. Savinien
Wordcount: 100
Rating: G
Summary: Just a wintery musing.

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The steep metal roof catches the snow for a while and holds it. The damp weight of it builds up there until the heat of the house and gravity win out and – sssssSSHH...FWUMP – it slides off and lands on the already-buried yard. The roof loses its load unevenly, perhaps because of the warmth difference between the rooms below, leaving a strange pattern as new snow falls. The roof becomes a patchwork of changing drifts, with less snow clinging in places, more in others, waiting for its turn to avalanche down to pile along the sides of the house.