know they are dead? do they know how to get wherever they are going? what happens when you don’t want the ghost to leave and go on their way? those were the questions that roamed through my mind as i read this story. some of them got answered, some not. along the way, shelly finds comfort in having normal conversations with ghosts—she treats them the same way she’d treat anyone she was just introduced to—with polite curiosity. your average ghost is nothing to be afraid of, provided you know the best ways to interact with them. they are just like us, only lost, confused, and stuck in time. when shelly 