The Word Ghost by Christine Paice

Author:Christine Paice
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
ISBN: 9781743435069
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2014-05-22T16:00:00+00:00

Like the Night She Comes

My brain hurt from all that champagne. I must have fallen asleep and then woken with the sounds of everyone returning home.

Tap tap tap. ‘Miss Budde, it is me, Algernon.’

I moaned and grumbled and turned over in bed. Go away and let me sleep please, Algie, we’ll talk tomorrow. Or the next day. Or the one after that.

‘Miss Budde?’

‘Oh please, Algie, it’s five o’clock in the bloody morning.’ I propped myself up on one elbow. It was still so dark, so cold. ‘Why do ghosts have to be cold, Algernon? Why can’t you be warm like a hot-water bottle?’

Tap tap tap against the window. I was grumbling and pulling on odd socks and my jumper and maybe a scarf and a hat and gloves. I didn’t put the light on, it might wake the parents, and Algernon was standing there faintly glowing. A few tiny little stones on the bed like sand, like grit, like stones, away, brush them away.

‘Miss Budde?’

‘Oh, Algie, please call me Rebecca. I mean we’re practically living together, aren’t we?’ He was all business tonight. He was waving around my book from college.

‘Byron,’ he said. ‘We will make a start. Unreliable as he is.’

‘Algie, you sound like a schoolteacher. Do we really have to do this now?’

‘Time is short,’ he said, then he and began to read.

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