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PodCastle 598: The Sound of His Voice Like the Colour of Salt (http://podcastle.org/2019/10/29/podcastle-598-the-sound-of-his-voice-like-the-colour-of-salt/)
Author: L. Chan (http://podcastle.org/people/l-chan/)
Narrator: Leeman Kessler (http://podcastle.org/people/leeman-kessler/)
Host: Setsu Uzume (http://podcastle.org/people/setsu-uzume/)
Audio Producer: Peter Behravesh (http://podcastle.org/people/peter-behravesh/)
Previously published by The Dark.
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Show Notes
Rated PG-13 for ghosts and the terrors that make them.
The ghost boy was the colour of bone, of gossamer spider web, of salt trails of dried tears. He still had his shape, his outline. No one had said his name in thirty years, even though he’d scarred the house with it, carved onto a tree in the garden, scratched into the paint under the outdoor kitchen. Scars unseen, name unspoken. The house had stood for close to a century, waking to kiss the sea breeze decades before, still standing when the red dirt roads had hardened to dark tarmac and the state had stolen the sea from it.
The house called the dead unto itself, and so the boy persisted, him and the others, outnumbering the living. Walls skinned with the colour of the ocean meeting the sky, a driveway of parched and cracked stone, girded with the garishness of bougainvillea and the shyness of orchids. The newest owners had furnished the house with a television screen the same size as a car door, computers in every room, tiny bulbs the size of candles with the glare of lighthouses; ripped out the old worm-eaten flooring in favour of inky Burmese teak. Now, you can do that, strip a house down to the bone, flay the walls from it and pull tiles like teeth. But the marrow of the house remained, so the living never stayed and the dead never left.
On the thirtieth anniversary of his death, a new ghost came to the house.
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