Ghostly Demarcations

Everyone admonishes our narrator, when all he wants to do is shout the wonders, the horrors, the terrors that he and his older adopted brother Galen face as one spiritual incursion after another manifests in their lives, moving from trickster poltergeists to forlornly wandering ghosts to intent fetches to avenging revenants. Perhaps, instead of admonishing him, everyone would do better to heed his early, youthful, deliberation.: ” I never heard his voice after that night. If we humans could always recognize the last words we were ever to hear from each person we knew or even met, our lives would perch as fragile indeed, gathering tragedy every listening moment to lean over a dark cellar, of dark farewells.”