Gathering the Stories » Christopher Kennedy https://www.gatheringthestories.org of place. Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:47:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 Ghost in the Land of Skeletons | Christopher Kennedy https://www.gatheringthestories.org/2015/02/07/ghost-in-the-land-of-skeletons-christopher-kennedy/ https://www.gatheringthestories.org/2015/02/07/ghost-in-the-land-of-skeletons-christopher-kennedy/#comments Sat, 07 Feb 2015 19:20:18 +0000 Haven http://www.gatheringthestories.org/?p=1413 Ghost in the Land of Skeletons
For Russell Edson
'Ghost Train' | © 2015 H a v e n

‘Ghost Train’ | © 2015 H a v e n

If not for flesh’s pretty paint, we’re just a bunch of skeletons, working hard to deny the fact of bones. Teeth remind me that we die. That’s why I never smile, except when looking at a picture of a ghost, captured by a camera lens, in a book about the paranormal. When someone takes a picture of a spirit, it gives me hope. I admire the ones who refuse to go away. Lovers scorned and criminals burned. I love the dead little girl who plays in her yard, a spectral game of hide and seek. It’s the fact they don’t know they’re dead that appeals to me most. Like a man once said to me, Do you ever feel like you’re a ghost? Sure, I answered, every day. He laughed at that and disappeared. All I could think was he beat me to it.
- Christopher Kennedy

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