by Dash Owens First time reader? You can find the previous chapters here. Maeve at one time had a professor of education ask the class: what do we owe one another? What do we owe to ourselves? Maeve had a complicated answer to these questions because she owed others quite a bit. She owed oneContinue reading “A Millennial Ghost Story (Chapter 10)”
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A Millennial Ghost Story (Chapter 9)
by Dash Owens As Edward, Belinda, and Junie began to give Maeve some answers, she asked even more questions. During one early morning, the ghosts were demonstrating to Maeve how they traveled at different speeds. “It’s easiest to focus on an object that’s moving first. Imagine you’re right next to it,” Edward directed, pointing toContinue reading “A Millennial Ghost Story (Chapter 9)”
A Millennial Ghost Story (Chapter 8)
by Dash Owens To pass the early, empty hours, the ghosts went over to Antonio’s house. Antonio lived in the brownstone he died in 59 years prior. He was exactly what a ghost who lived with his great-grandchildren should be: toothy, broad smile with a poof of inconsistently thick grey hair. He wore the frayedContinue reading “A Millennial Ghost Story (Chapter 8)”
A Millennial Ghost Story (Chapter 7)
by Dash Owens Maeve tried to make friends. After the horrific first meeting with the clerks, Maeve told Edward she had no interest in returning to the library or doing any favors for the clerks. Edward seemed unfazed. “When you have eternity, nothing is permanent,” he stated impersonally, which Maeve found chilling. Like most ofContinue reading “A Millennial Ghost Story (Chapter 7)”
A Millennial Ghost Story (Chapter 6)
by Dash Owens “The inside of the library doesn’t match the outside,” Maeve mused as she moved up the Brooklyn Central Library staircase with Edward. Speaking still took time, but she found she had a lot more to say. It helped that she was shocked at the bare ugliness of a building she once esteemedContinue reading “A Millennial Ghost Story (Chapter 6)”
A Millennial Ghost Story (Chapter 5)
by Dash Owens The period between 3:30 and 6 a.m. was the trickiest. Few were watching television or listening to the radio or reading books during this time. Mary left for work around 6:15 every morning, and Maeve usually followed her. Sometimes Maeve got caught up with the insomniac or she discovered an early risingContinue reading “A Millennial Ghost Story (Chapter 5)”
A Millennial Ghost Story (Chapter 4)
by Dash Owens First time reader? Check out chapters one, two, and three. Maeve first met Mary when she was still a teacher. They met at a staff happy hour and shared a car home. While they waited, it began to rain. They rushed under the canopy of a nearby apartment building, at which point Mary declaredContinue reading “A Millennial Ghost Story (Chapter 4)”
A Millennial Ghost Story (Chapter 3)
by Dash Owens First time reader? Check out chapters one and two. Maeve lost time. It wasn’t exactly an unconscious time. Similar to a dying lightbulb, she flickered off and on, to and fro. She thought she saw her apartment, but then she saw swirls of dark colors. Her existence stuttered in the few blocksContinue reading “A Millennial Ghost Story (Chapter 3)”
A Millennial Ghost Story (Chapter 2)
by Dash Owens Check out Chapter 1! The Brooklyn Public Library stands across from the oft-lauded Prospect Park and the distinguished archway of Grand Army Plaza. When Maeve was alive, she quizzed friends and family — “When was this arch commemorated? For whom? What?” She giggled when they fell into her trap and lobbed “theContinue reading “A Millennial Ghost Story (Chapter 2)”
A Millennial Ghost Story (Chapter 1)
by Dash Owens Maeve realized the uselessness of escaping debt — the expense of a self-indulgent education riddled with false starts— and, after lengthy imagined acceptance speeches and daydreams of novels, she uncovered the blunt, inevitable conclusion: Maeve needed to kill herself. What was her education? A series of discussions frustrated by every man’s indecentContinue reading “A Millennial Ghost Story (Chapter 1)”
The Gadfly Symposium 