Upside Ann

 I found these notes from a book I read in 2023.  I am not sure how or when this person was peering over my shoulder.  I do not recall their shadow.  And while I remember the title, I don't think I remember these passages.  Haunting.  As a Ghost Club should be.                     The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson 2018                                  Read 10-17-23   In the hallway of a hospital two hundred miles from my childhood home.   I stood cradling the most precious object I would ever hold—a child I already loved more than he would ever be capable of loving me back—as scared as I’d ever been.   It wasn’t the fear I’d known as a boy: that onrushing smash-cut terror of a monster leaping from a closet.    This was the gnawing fear of possibility, the ...

 The sliver of space that had separated his shoudler from mine as we sat together on the bench had pulsed with warmth, and just as when a cat jumps down from your knee, the cold that replaced it was made more profound by its emptiness. Throughout the night, the baby woke me with her cries, and each time I pulled her close, I felt a queer sorrowful joy.  She was a piece of me that had broken free to become her own person...