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“You’re not sad enough to move on,” said a voice one night.

He tried a classic: Boo.

Philip slid off his stool. His feet made no sound. He approached the booth, heart—metaphorically—pounding. philip mainlander

It was an ordinary Tuesday when Philip Mainlander realized he was a ghost. “You’re not sad enough to move on,” said

Not the wailing, chain-rattling kind. No, Philip was the quietest ghost in the entire city of Greyhearth. He haunted a single spot: the third stool from the left at the counter of the Silver Cup Diner, a place that smelled of burnt coffee and forgotten dreams. His feet made no sound

Philip looked down at his own hands. They were faintly translucent, like old glass. “What am I supposed to do?”

She pulled out a battered ledger, scratched something out, and wrote a new line: