h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I'm starting to think that this house has an unexploded bomb at the bottom of the garden. That would have a symbolism that works for me, particularly if some of the letters were edgy and hinted at a terrible secret.

The piece might start like this:

The stick of bombs cut a swathe across the north of the town, and all hell broke loose.
There were a few above ground, but they gave their full attention to the fires. The many cowered below the ground, overwhelmed by the blackness and the noise.
So it was that one of the bombs fell unseen in Tanner Lane. It smashed down into the soft earth at the edge of the allotments. Its tailfin, torn away, cartwheeled into the sluice behind the slaughterhouse, but the sleek charge itself plunged deep. It did not do what bombs are supposed to do. The wet soil drew over it with a sigh that nobody heard, and the fitful rain and the smoke and the sparks above the rooftops went on throughout the night.

Then would come the letters, eventually in date order, starting around 1941. One thread might start out as love-letters to a woman in the house, warm and uplifting-seeming, but terminated by a terse letter from a resentful widow who's finally found the responses at the other end.

Any merit?