A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding (2015)
“The form it supposedly takes when travelling is a reddish, yellowy or bluish-white ball of fire with a tail.
What to say of the moment you see a living ghost? The day was ordinary, the sun did not shine any brighter, the ward did not look any different, but in a heartbeat her world transformed and her fate was sealed. The shock coursed through her body, along quickening blood to eyes that doubted their vision, even her sanity, but Sato was no illusion. He stood surrounded by a group of nurs...es who were listening attentively as he dispensed instructions. I imagined the panic in her lungs, the strafing in her stomach, the scream in her mind when she recognised him. She waited for him to look up, but still he checked a clipboard and smiled at a patient and walked to a bedside.
‘He must see me. Had I grown so invisible? Was I so much changed? Finally he glanced up and stopped talking. Across the ward we stood, only forty feet but eight years apart.MoreLess
What to say of the moment you see a living ghost? The day was ordinary, the sun did not shine any brighter, the ward did not look any different, but in a heartbeat her world transformed and her fate was sealed. The shock coursed through her body, along quickening blood to eyes that doubted their vision, even her sanity, but Sato was no illusion. He stood surrounded by a group of nurs...es who were listening attentively as he dispensed instructions. I imagined the panic in her lungs, the strafing in her stomach, the scream in her mind when she recognised him. She waited for him to look up, but still he checked a clipboard and smiled at a patient and walked to a bedside.
‘He must see me. Had I grown so invisible? Was I so much changed? Finally he glanced up and stopped talking. Across the ward we stood, only forty feet but eight years apart.MoreLess
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