City of Ghosts

THE INSPECTERS.

It’s a play on words, you see, because an inspector is a person who searches for and examines something, and a specter with an e is another word for ghost. So an inspecter is a person who searches for and examines ghosts

One foot with the living, and one with the dead.

“Ghost five,” I say, for luck. A ghost five is like a high five for friends who can’t really touch. It’s basically just me putting out my hand and him pretending to hit it, both of us murmuring a soft “smack” sound on contact.

“Ninth rule of friendship,” he says, “ghost-watching is a two-person sport.”

That tickle at the edge of your senses

It was damaged but not ruined, changed but not destroyed. Kind of like me.

A little special.

A little strange.

And our memories change, too.

the world is always changing, every second of every day, and so is everything in it, which means that the you you are right now is different from the you you were when you started reading this sentence.

what you don’t see is always scarier than what you do.

Just because you can’t see them doesn’t mean they aren’t there.