Directions to a House That Isn't There Anymore

A daughter tries to give her father directions to a childhood home that was torn down years ago.

Take the old bypass until the gas station with the rusted roof. When you hit the willow tree that split in the storm ten years back, turn left, even though there's only an empty meadow now where the porch used to face the creek.

He nodded quietly, marking the turns on a map that had no streets left on it.