How to Sell a Haunted House

by Grady Hendrix

“But people leave behind traces of themselves after they die: art collections, junk you’ve got to clean out of their houses, emotional problems they inflict on their kids. Why can’t they also leave behind energy?

“The Velveteen Rabbit is not a compelling theoretical framework for the physical universe,” Louise said. “It’s a children’s story.” “So’s the Bible,” Mark said. “But you got people making laws and killing each other over it every day.”

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“Because you’re real, Pupkin,” Louise said. “And nothing real can last forever. That’s how you know you’re real. Because one day you die.”

She cried because at last it hit her that time only moves in one direction, no matter how hard we wish it wasn’t so.