__full__ — Keep It Down, You Two!!

“What ghost?”

Lena threw a pillow at his head. He dodged. The pillow hit the lamp, which wobbled, then crashed. Glass chimes. A tiny, perfect explosion. keep it down, you two!!

Upstairs, in the cramped bedroom they’d shared since the divorce split the house like a wishbone, twelve-year-old Lena froze. Her brother, Leo, didn’t. He kept thumping the floor with the heel of his sneaker, a dull whump-whump-whump that matched the bass line bleeding through his headphones. “What ghost