Trust Exercise

by Susan Choi

And right away her gaze went hard with the anger we always feel at the person who spoils our idea of ourself.

Obsession is an accidental haunting, by a person not aware she’s a ghost. I knew Sarah was my ghost, but she’d forgotten I even existed.

Karen’s mother had adored Masterpiece Theatre with the slavish adoration of somebody who thinks she’s cultured but in reality is turned on by the clothes.