How to Sell a Haunted House

by Grady Hendrix

“What does it take,” he whisper-growled, “to make someone in this family actually listen to me?” Louise felt a rush of affection for him.

Every puppeteer knows that when they wear a puppet it’s live, like a grenade with the pin pulled.”

I read about Bread and Puppet in Vermont and their antiwar puppet shows that ended with the entire audience breaking homemade bread together.

You don’t wear the puppet. The puppet wears you.

Clark’s parents had a rental house outside Worcester on a rural route, and we stopped by there to drop off our stuff before heading to the school. It’s hard to describe how depressing that place was except to say that every light fixture was a fluorescent tube and it only seemed survivable because we thought we’d be there for one night.