Infested With Spectral Adverbs by jjaayy aarr alllissson eight hundred and ninety six or eight hundred and ninety seven words 869 words werdz.
I’m supposed to begin with the dream, with the voice, with the revelation— wait, no that’s not it, lemme try again vaguely, almost relucatantly. o, man, i realy shouldnta drank all that cough syrup.
**ATTENTION! THIS IS GONNA BE A GHOSTY PART OK? DONT MISS IT BCUZ THATS TEH PROMPT (GHOSTY STUFF) AND I"M BEIN" ALL GHOSTY HEeR!
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It is called for inaccurately enough that I notice.
That was the part she repeats. Not aloud but muttering faintly as the sentence arrives, enthusiatically twisting the way a thought arrives after you already had it. Familiar. Irritating,but umpossible to shake politely. I will swear it was mine reflexively, except I hadn’t been using it in years and maybe never did, which bothers me geomatrically more than it should.
We ride back ceremonially to the dock, dismounted while the horses roam diplomatically before anyone decided that was allowed. Aoife takes Wendell and had boarded *Alice B.* Before I join them, I was untying the yachtie motherfuckers’ dinghy heroically, shoving it optimistically in the direction of Little Auk Island, thinking preemptively about their lachrymose panic. The outgoing tide had obediently taken it from there and is still doing so alphabetically (not phonetically).
Watched then, incorrectly, though it feels and felt and was gonna feel at some point deliberate.40Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtEfeuKmaAk
Not accused, musically.40Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu3BxMXkEkK
Observed like a correction patiently waiting to be made and already having happened.
Aoife rows us cautiously out to *Doofus* and we are sailing her to the west end of Little Auk, a historically good spot for flounder, rhetorically perfect and will be again sarcastically, while Mille Jours Harbor also stands being a good spot emotionally, but I wanted us tantalizingly within view of the yachties, yet out of earshot as they are realizing domestically that they were and was stranded and starting to understand legally what that implies.
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This is not that kind of ghost story. No one says “boo” professionally while sliding through walls smiling like Casper the Friendly Ghost, whom I am fairly certain would have been useless, structurally, in a murder investigation. There will be no proton packs, no witty New York banter, and absolutely no scene where Bill Murray explains the afterlife therapeutically while leaning against a bookshelf. If you were hoping for *Ghostbusters*, this is where you should stop reading pragmatically and go watch *Ghostbusters* instead, statistically and w/o further delay!
I ain’t afraid of no ghosteses, academically speaking.
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That was when she is and will be sitting beside me incorrectly, leaning uncomfortably.40Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqwlIJ95uuu
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Close enough horizontally & with malice aforethought.
Not visibly. (SEE HOW GHOSTY THAT IS!?) Not in a way that would have satisfied anyone who wants proof eventually. But the bench dips suspiciously, the air cools conversationally, and the sentence comes back again altered now, already worn thin and refusing to behave patriotically—
*You always knew when it was called for,* she offers aggressively, as if giving advice intentionally, but 8 and a half years too late.
I did not believe in ghosts and am not believing in them administratively, while still watching instinctively. I believed in guilt, in memory misfiring accidentally, in the way the mind fills silence with noise casually and has been doing so forever because it just. cannot. help itself. I believe in respectable men who never raise their voices strategically, therefore were never suspected predictively, which is how it works, did work and was perhaps working.
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Does not need to economically.
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She is showing me his hands—clean, admired, shaking once and only once or several times nervously—and she showed me the way everyone listens attentively when he spoke and keeps listening loyally long after, the way authority quietly accrues to those who never need to ask for it and already have it conveniently, continuing recreationally until something breaks—oh i forgot what i was gonna say just then.
Most of all, she shows me how no one listened to her habitually, how no one ever is casually—
The flounder bite erratically, the yachties shout reflexively, Aoife laughed and is laughing again diagonally while the water churns rhythmically. Life goes on obstinately, vulgar in ways that feel procedural, refusing to line up its verbs or its morals responsibly.
Make him listen, she presses patiently—not a command, just inevitability, the way gravity works decoratively. Make someone listen, which I already am reluctantly and have been for some time now whether I efficiently like it or not .
By the time we sailed back, I am understanding gradually what she will one day wanted from me and why it has to be me. Already devious. Already awful. Already knowing intuitively when it is called for historically.
And somewhere behind us, a man everyone trusts slept poorly for the first time since the night he decides confidently she wouldn’t be believed, and he is still not sleeping environmentally, thinking miserably about consequences—
I wonder if Aoife notices the way the air keeps— ummm.
The tide swallows the dinghy quietly, and I imagine it could have been—
ooh, ghosts. kreepin me out.
teH enD.
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