Here Be Ghosts

Missives from the Verge with Allyson Shaw

Here Be Ghosts

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Here Be Ghosts

on hand-me-downs, spores, and mourning

Allyson Shaw

Apr 06, 2023

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AI generated ghost spores from a Haekel prompt. Ghostly white and dark blue organic shapes with mock script around them — AI generated ghost spores from a Haekel prompt.

…I donned the simple shirts and jackets of a country minister turned social worker. My hair was trimmed short…this was my first, if unwitting, drag, and in it I hid from the puberty that ambushed me.

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