"The family was mostly made up of familiar materials: Mother, Father, and Son. It was also made up of foreign materials. The foreign materials were too many to list here or anywhere – facial tics, sexual proclivities, favorite colors and so on - but their oddity also made it familiar in a way, a family."
And the ghosts are all around them, another familiar material.
Timmy Reed is a writer and teacher from Baltimore, Maryland. He is the author of Tell God I Don't Exist, The Ghosts That Surrounded Them, Miraculous Fauna, Star Backwards, and IRL as well as a couple of chapbooks: Stray/Pest and Zeb And Bunny Build Russian Dolls. He has been featured in the Wigleaf Top 50 on multiple occasions and won a 2015 Baker Artist Awards B-Grant. Learn more here: https://underratedanimals.wordpress.com