Ask once if you’re curious. Ask twice if you’re sure.
Milo Dixon · A Novella · 2026
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Oswald McBride is a retired history professor who, alongside his psychiatrist husband Alfred, developed a shared ritual for grief: whenever someone close to them dies, they write questions to the deceased and imagine the answers.
But then a car crash involving Oz, Alfred, and a stranger named Martell Greene ends with Martell dead.
Soon after, things begin happening inside their home that Oz cannot explain. Music plays by itself. He finds strange messages written in his own handwriting. And it seems as if someone is moving through rooms that should be empty.
Oz starts documenting everything. Dates, notes, and recordings — every detail he can preserve. Anything that can prove Martell is really there.
At first, Oz only wants an answer.
Then Martell starts asking questions too.
This is a ghost story. But it might not be the one he’s telling you.
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