In the Name of Research

Lit Up Halloween Spooks — Ethics of self-preservation.

Jessica Ball
Nov 1 · 2 min read

“It’s not quite what we’d hoped for.”

“Well, what did you expect? She didn’t leave me much to work with.”

Muffled voices warbled through my darkness from outside and up. The sounds weren’t coming through quite right, anyway. Oh, they drifted down just fine, but somewhere between…

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Jessica Ball

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City mouse in a country house, training the trauma out of the family tree. Sharing 20 years of intentional observation with my kids and the eternally curious.

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