An early disappointment: \u201cghost towns\u201d are not settlements of ghosts. They\u2019re dead towns, not ghost towns. Death is everywhere, everyday. Ghosts are interesting. Dead, alive. Seen, unseen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lately, I\u2019ve been seeing things, and people, who aren\u2019t there any longer. Ghosts, maybe. I see children who are no longer children. I see Casa Castillo, the Mexican restaurant, long since replaced by an auto parts store, where I always ordered a quesadilla and my mother had a chile relleno. I see VW beetles long since sent to scrap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You do have ghosts, too? Perhaps my ghosts can see your ghosts. Your crossing guard wishes my mailman a good morning. My librarian reads quietly while waiting at your laundromat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No\u2014our ghosts haunt each of us alone. Phantoms of our specific pasts, they are engravings on our finite memories. When we\u2019re gone, they\u2019re gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An early disappointment: \u201cghost towns\u201d are not settlements of ghosts. They\u2019re dead towns, not ghost towns. Death is everywhere, everyday. Ghosts are interesting. Dead, alive. Seen, unseen. Lately, I\u2019ve been seeing things, and people, who aren\u2019t there any longer. Ghosts, maybe. I see children who are no longer children. I see Casa Castillo, the Mexican … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa867U-BK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2341,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions\/2341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Born in California, Greg now lives and teaches in Yokohama, Japan. He is an avid reader and a jazz enthusiast.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"