Status Updates From Our Wives Under the Sea

“As a hypochondriac, the typical response when I’m panicking is to acknowledge it will end. […] When something bad is actually happening, it’s easy to underreact, because a part of you is wired to assume it isn’t real. When you stop underreacting, the horror is unique because it is, unfortunately, endless.”

“I saw him many times in the direct aftermath of his death, waved whenever he appeared and never felt compelled to speak to him. There was really no unfinished business, which I think is what stopped that whole thing being frightening— that and the fact that, ghost or not, it was still only ever my father.”