Atlas and Alice Issue 4

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Atlas & Alice | Issue 4, Summer/Fall 2015

This is how you become a ghost. Repeat yourself. Stand in the corner of your childhood bedroom. Wish so hard for someone to take care of you that the small haunt of a child, stowed beneath a quilt too heavy for the season, can no longer bring herself to look in that corner or to notice how that section of wallpaper refuses to fade, refuses to give up its only color.

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