Ghost Eaters

by Clay McLeod Chapman

Now we’re stranded in that liminal space between childhood and adulthood, which most days feels like being stuck somewhere between the living and the dead.

But sometimes the best kind of help a friend can offer is to just stop helping.

But this is a ghost story. A ghost is someone caught in a loop, doomed to repeat the same actions over and over again. So who’s the real ghost here? Who’s haunting who?

“We’ve gotten haunted houses all wrong. It’s people who are really haunted.”

What is a ghost? Is it a shadow of our past clinging to our present? I believe it’s our addictions. The habits we form that end up consuming us if we allow them to take over.