Ghosts
Anonymous
It’s about ghosts, right. That’s the thing - ghosts as they are, aren’t really ghosts. They're just people. Is it really a monster in your bedroom or is it just your dead sister, and so on.
The better definition of a ghost is to first define a haunting. That’s what a ghost does, after all; it haunts, dragging dead weight forward where it was best left behind. Wait no - I’m sorry. That's regret. A haunting is-
Well, it’s absence but absence becomes presence. The lack of whatever you’re missing becomes as poignant as whatever was there before. You can’t forget. You would forget but you wouldn’t because you hold it white knuckled between your teeth.
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