the haunted house (Patreon)

Dear one,

I have been thinking about your letter.

There is no doubt the house is haunted. The kitchen shutters are screaming and the pipes in the walls are slamming opened and closed and plates are flinging the floorboards shifting, and you have never been so scared. There is no doubt the house is haunted, but there's a moment when you are so close to death that you can see clearly. And you can see that you're the one haunting the house. And you are deeply, deeply ashamed.

Please don't be.

It isn't your fault. Even if you know better. Even if you know you should be vacuuming and setting the table instead of smashing vases and filling the baby's bathwater with goat blood. 

We are built to haunt, Dear One. There is no shame in that. The world needs haunting. Imagine a world without ghosts. Poltergeists. Witches and Werewolves. Lights in the swamp.

Imagine a world where the skulls don't talk. 

I know you know better. I know it doesn't help.

I love you, 

Joey