Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions (Wicked Lovely 5.50)

Siobhan sounds too scared

to be mad,

which is saying a lot.

“Please.”

“Spend the money,” Mickey says,

“if it makes you feel better.”

Our sister’s eyes fill with tears,

and I want to kill him.

“I hate you,” she whispers to her twin.

“I hate you too,” her twin whispers back.

I want to wake Connor,

tell him to make peace.

That’s what bass players are for, right?

But he hasn’t been

our bass player

since the night I died

and killed the Keeley Brothers

forever.

As the car creeps,

and Connor sleeps,

and Siobhan weeps,

Mickey . . .

Mickey exists.

Siobhan has to pee.

But the truck stop is new,

so I can’t follow them.

Ghosts can only go in death

to the places they went in life,

like a hamster in a Habitrail.

Mickey puts on his blinker.