House of Sighs
Here she lay with ghosts.
The ghost of a girl who refused to let herself grow into something she didn’t want to be; the ghost of the teenager who hoped for happiness holding hands with a woman who also never existed and was only aspired to. Liz was happy in the clearing. But each morning brought with it spiders waiting to spin fresh webs, ushered snakes out of hibernation. The scrub came with risks, and not even her ghosts could keep Liz safe. Here, among trees that resembled piled skeletons, watched by kangaroos foraging for berries, next to the remains of a dead fox with a tawny pelt writhing with maggots, Liz’s ghosts took her by the hand. Time to leave this place. She walked to the house
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