The souls of animals are usually too small to be detected with ordinary technology (the ordinary technology being the souls of human beings), but in the case of unexpected mass animal death (zoo fires, poisonings) they clump together and form a ghost about the size of a very old person’s. The ghosts of children are enormous. The ghosts of the very old are worn thin from use. Arch Truitt had grown up in an apartment over a bowling alley, and late at night he could hear the ghosts, which he believed were in fact science—radio waves, or radiation, or fine magnetic objects rushing to the North
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