Who gets to (cycling-link:'haunt', 'have', 'hold')
(text-style:"fade-in-out")[and who doesn’t?]
Most ghosts are
(cycling-link:'lord', 'lady', 'vulnerable woman', 'maid', 'convict').
They are (cycling-link:'legend', 'lawless', 'cisgender').
(text-style:"fade-in-out")[They aren't me.]
[[>>>>|just a temp]](text-style:"fade-in-out")[[>>|just a temp]]I’m just a temp
in a job
in (cycling-link:'a building', 'an office', 'October')
where someone was
(cycling-link:'once', 'just now') murdered.
Throat slit
head hit
[strangled]<sm2|
(click:?sm2)+(transition:"shudder")[with phone cord.]
[[>>>>|hall 1]](text-style:"fade-in-out")[[>>|hall 1]]In this rocky
old building
(cycling-link:'lights', 'pronouns') (text-style:"shudder")[flicker.]
My (cycling-link:'boss', 'colleague', 'client')
uses (cycling-link:'he', 'she', 'it').
Was this person ...
is this ghost ...
(text-style:"fade-in-out")[like me?]
(text-style:"upside-down")+(text-style:"fade-in-out")[like me?]
[[>>>>>>|like me?]](text-style:"fade-in-out")[[>>|like me?]]Can you even be
a transgender ghost?
Or is there a lack
of spooky sensationalism
in (cycling-link:'unseen', 'ghostly', 'see through') genitals?
(text-style:"fade-in-out")[Who are you?]
(text-style:"mirror")+(text-style:"fade-in-out")[What are you?]
[[>>>>>>>>|hall 2]](text-style:"fade-in-out")[[>>|hall 2]]Who are you(text-style:"fade-in-out")[???]
I whisper
through walls(text-style:"fade-in-out")[...]
Scritch and mumble
against (cycling-link:'blue', 'pink', 'asbestos') walls.
[What are you?]<sm1| (click:?sm1)+(transition:"shudder")[Who are you?]
And which bathroom
(text-style:"fade-in-out")[do you haunt?]
[[>>>>>>>>>>|do you haunt?]](text-style:"fade-in-out")[[>>|do you haunt?]]I walk into the (cycling-link:'mens', 'ladies', 'unisex', 'stall')
to clean with (cycling-link:'antiseptic', 'sanitiser', 'bleach')
and I feel myself slipping
on water (click-replace:"water")[(transition:"shudder")[my unseen form.]]
Someone should
clean that spill.
(text-style:"upside-down")[clean that kill.]
Can’t have any
(text-style:"fade-in-out")[slip-ups.]
[[>>>>>>>>>>|slip-ups.]](text-style:"fade-in-out")[[>>|slip-ups.]]Coz what else
are trans (cycling-link:'bodies', 'ghosts')
when we’re erased
from history?
Slip ups
(text-style:"fade-in-out")[cleaned up.]
(text-style:"upside-down")+(text-style:"fade-in-out")[cleaned up.]
[[>>>>>>>>>>|stairs 1]](text-style:"fade-in-out")[[>>|stairs 1]]What is the worth
of a ghost story
if the haunt is
a (cycling-link:'ghoul', 'freak', 'mutant')
and not
a (cycling-link:'spectre', 'phantom', 'spirit', 'spook')?
[Expectations un]<sm7| (click:?sm7)+(transition:"shudder")[fulfilled...]
You need a good
ghost story
that’s (cycling-link:'predictable', 'normal', 'easy to tell').
One that just
[slips right]<sm6|
(click:?sm6)+(transition:"shudder")+(text-style:"fade-in-out")[off the tongue.]
[[>>>>>>>>>>|off the tongue.]](text-style:"fade-in-out")[[>>|off the tongue.]]Stories without
complications
like (cycling-link:'gender', 'sexuality', 'queerness').
God.
(text-style:"fade-in-out")[Why are]
(text-style:"fade-in-out")[people]
(text-style:"fade-in-out")+(text-style:"shudder")[like this?]
Can I just
be a ghost
already (cycling-link:'???', '!!!', '...')
[[>>>>>>>>>>>>|stairs 2]](text-style:"fade-in-out")[[>>|stairs 2]]I’m so tired.
Just let me
sleep (cycling-link:'in', 'today', 'tomorrow', 'forever').
Let me haunt
your (cycling-link:'dreams', 'toilets', 'history')
[forever]<sm5|
(click:?sm5)+(transition:"shudder")+(text-style:"mirror")+(text-style:"fade-in-out")[forever]<sm6|
(click:?sm6)+(transition:"shudder")+(text-style:"fade-in-out")[forever]<sm7|
(click:?sm7)+(transition:"shudder")+(text-style:"mirror")+(text-style:"fade-in-out")[forever]
(text-style:"fade-in-out")[[>>|exit]][[EXIT|exit]](text-style:"fade-in-out")[[>>|exit]]<img src="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1571065497914-38c5d3cde715?ixlib=rb-1.2.1&ixid=eyJhcHBfaWQiOjEyMDd9&auto=format&fit=crop&w=750&q=80" width="640" height="427">
HOW TO (cycling-link:'HAUNT', 'HAVE', 'HOLD')
(text-style:"fade-in-out")[[>>|How to haunt]][[ENTER|How to haunt]](text-style:"fade-in-out")[[>>|How to haunt]]<img src="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1572297880316-e7c2d45be117?ixlib=rb-1.2.1&ixid=eyJhcHBfaWQiOjEyMDd9&auto=format&fit=crop&w=750&q=80" width="640" height="427">
[[>>>>>>|with phone cord.]](text-style:"fade-in-out")[[>>|with phone cord.]]<img src="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1572297870735-065d402f7b29?ixlib=rb-1.2.1&ixid=eyJhcHBfaWQiOjEyMDd9&auto=format&fit=crop&w=750&q=80" width="640" height="427">
[[>>>>>>>>|Who are you?]](text-style:"fade-in-out")[[>>|Who are you?]]<img src="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1572297851974-c5fd885b105a?ixlib=rb-1.2.1&ixid=eyJhcHBfaWQiOjEyMDd9&auto=format&fit=crop&w=750&q=80" width="640" height="427">
[[>>>>>>>>>>|cleaned up.]](text-style:"fade-in-out")[[>>|cleaned up.]]<img src="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1572297898720-33256db5a109?ixlib=rb-1.2.1&ixid=eyJhcHBfaWQiOjEyMDd9&auto=format&fit=crop&w=750&q=80" width="640" height="427">
[[>>>>>>>>>>>>|already?]](text-style:"fade-in-out")[[>>|already?]]