Dream House by Marzia Bisognin

Author:Marzia Bisognin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atria/Keywords Press

DAY 16

AT 9:20 the next morning I open the door of my bedroom and walk out into the long hall. I feel tired and awful, but I know I can’t hide in bed forever.

Shuffling like a zombie, I make my way to the kitchen, where I pick up one of the few remaining chocolate bars and take it with me into the living room. I sit there apathetically on the sofa, letting time pass by without me and staring out the windows in the hope of seeing Avery, tormented by yesterday’s spat.

I know I was in the wrong. I know there was no justification at all for me behaving like that towards him, and that there’s absolutely no excuse for the things I said. I don’t know much about him, after all, yet even though we were complete strangers until a week or so ago, he has repeatedly been there for me.

I look around the room, feeling an urge to keep myself busy so I can avoid dwelling on Avery too much, and find something that works perfectly: almost hidden away up in the top corner of the bookshelf, I spy the book that Marvin was reading the day we met—Spiritual Relief.

I toss my snack onto the coffee table, walk over to the bookcase, and jump as high as I can in an effort to reach it. But it’s no use, so I drag over a chair from the dining table and climb up on top of that.

My fingertips brush against the black leather binding of the book, and I slide it out from the shelf where it belongs. It’s not a big volume, but it feels heavy, and by the look of it I can tell that it’s pretty old. Inside the front cover, the blue title appears again at the centre of the flyleaf, followed by the authoress’s name—Vivien Bisset—and the date it was written, 1948.

Turning it over, I find a list of the book’s contents: the various chapters, all dealing with spirits, divide the book into sections.

The first chapter is called “Know the Spirit.” I flick to the page and read the sections into which it is divided: “Rudiments,” “Ghosts,” and “Spectres.”

A quick skim through “Rudiments” reveals that there are different types of spirits with which we may come into contact during our lives. Some might be ghosts, some might be spectres, but in between these two categories are numerous other subtypes, each differing from the others.

The book explains that when you come across a spirit, your awareness of its existence means that it notices you as well—until that specific moment, it may not have been aware of your presence at all. Acknowledging each other’s existence is the first step to take in order to understand which type of spirit you are dealing with.

The page goes on to explain all of the various types, so I skim through it in search of a category that might fit Alfred’s case. When I reach the word “suicidal,” I stop dead in my tracks.

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