The unentered room

It has haunted me for years. I cannot sleep nor rest alone in this room. Night and day is the same; light and darkness are also the same. I cannot even spend more than five minutes in that room alone. I avoid cleaning it and my mother does so once in a while when she visits.

The unentered room is situated about three metres from the main house in my late grandmother’s yard who built a two-roomed structure – including that room – when she settled in Tlagadi more than 20 years ago.