Is There Anybody There? by Maggie Pearson

Author:Maggie Pearson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2011-05-14T16:00:00+00:00

I told myself it was a trick of the light.

Then one of the shadows stopped.

Mo walked on, along with her own shadow. The other shadow stood very still. Slowly it turned its head towards me. I felt it looking at me, checking me out.

Then it began to move.

I didn’t wait to see any more. I ran.

* * *

Safe in my room, I tried to get my head round what just happened. What was it I saw?

A shadow? Yes.

No!

That thing I saw was more than a shadow. That thing had a mind of its own.

A ghost, then? What ghost? The ghost of Tom, the bomber pilot?

How could it be? We made him up.

But maybe that’s what ghosts are. If enough people believe hard enough – there’s your ghost. It could be a mad monk, or a black dog, or a queen with her head tucked under her arm.

Together we’d created our very own ghost. He had nearly killed Lee. Now he was haunting Jaz and stalking Mo.

What about me?

I’d got away this time. Maybe all I had to do now was stay away from shadows. But on Monday I’d be back at school, walking home in the dark. Walking home in a world full of shadows.

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