The Apparition Phase

by Will Maclean

In a similar way, that phrase, human remains, I always found extraordinarily disturbing and unsettling. It implied something more intimate and terrible than mere bones: the ruins of a person.

Is it more terrifying to believe somewhere is haunted, or to believe that nowhere is?

If I had to characterise my life, the image that always sprang to mind was a slow descent, a narrowing of horizons and potential, missed chances and bad luck, funnelling downwards, always downwards, to the dissatisfactions of the present.