A Head Full of Ghosts

by Paul Tremblay

It was even darker inside the cardboard house than it was in my room, like how deeper water is darker than the shallows.

Curtains don’t billow into a room without wind or, granted, without Satan! (*Satan’s Window Treatments is the name of my punk band*)

“Yeah, Stephen Graham Jones. Funny that I remember his full name like that, but that’s how he was introduced to me. He wouldn’t let me call him mister like my regular teachers, and I liked saying his whole name out loud, whenever I could. It became a little OCD tic of mine. I’d say, ‘Good-bye, Stephen Graham Jones,’ or, ‘I don’t know what an obtuse triangle is, Stephen Graham Jones.’”

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