HOW TO BE A GHOST

Try this with the brown glass bottle. Press it to your lips. Exhale. Night blooms. On a white wall in an empty house, the shadows of leaves in the room where you were a child.

Beth Hahn (she/her) is the author of the novel THE SINGING BONE (Regan Arts, 2016). Her work is featured or forthcoming in Milk Candy Review, New World Writing, Fractured Lit, HAD, and CRAFT, among others.