My sister sees.
All my life, she’s made predictions: her grade on tomorrow’s algebra test, what we’d both get for Christmas, Mom’s cancer, Troy’s car crash, the day our Grandma Schulz would die. The night before 9/11, she dreamed about a plane crashing into a building, knocking it over easily, like a flimsy Lego tower. And we live in Wayne, Pennsylvania—nowhere near New York.
Cassie says these visions start slowly, sort of like a picture developing, and then become clear all at once. “It’s like something warm spilling inside my brain,” she says. “Or like light cast through a prism, a streak of orange running into blue.” She claims she can’t make it happen, but she knows when a picture is coming. She calls that feeling Before. The frame around it is After.
Ghost Signs by Elizabeth Mosier
February 18, 2013 at 9:39 am
super super gorgeous. I remember you reading from this in your beautiful voice not long ago, and I hope to hear you reading more from it soon.