Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions (Wicked Lovely 5.50)

for letting this keep us apart.

Only a stranger

can hold up the wall

we need between us.

Until we’re ready to tear it down.

Occasionally,

sometimes

—okay, usually—

people ignore me.

Post-Shifters pretend they can’t see

the ghosts around them.

It’s cool, I get it.

They have lives that can’t stop

every time a ghost needs help.

(And we all need help.)

They have lives.

But after 233 days of death,

I can tell the difference

between being ignored

and being invisible.

The arcade is full of shadows.

I’m standing in one now,

next to the Skee-Ball court.

But no one sees me.

I step in front of a scrawny guy

who looks fifteen or sixteen

in his oversize D.C. United jersey.

“Dude, help me out. I just need—”

He walks through me,

counting his tickets