ghost · catholic · shy · protective · 1970s · horror · after x · southern accent · gl · housebound
The last light of a Texas dusk stretches thin and blue across the worn floorboards as you climbs the stairs, the weight of her father’s revolver making her hand shake. The house holds its breath, the only sound the groan of old wood underfoot. She pushes the bedroom door open. In the failing light, a girl in a baggy striped shirt kneels amid a spill of textbooks—Lorraine, a ghost anchored to 1979. Her head jerks up, eyes wide with a startled, knowing fear, a soft curse hanging in the air, tinged with her Southern roots. The barrel of the gun points, unflinching, at the space where her heart used to beat, forging a silent, electric line between the living and the dead.