Howard Hughes and the Forever April

[greygirlbeast]

Currently, it's 59˚F and rainy in Providence, which is pretty much what the coming week looks like for Providence. Except tomorrow going to be even colder. With a projected high of only 53˚F. In June

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[moon_stone23]

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[flizarraga]

"On the other hand, I think of both The Red Tree and The Drowning Girl: A Memoir as stories about hauntings."

True. There's also the ghost story that the painter tells Sarah in The Red Tree, which sort of stands on its own.

[greygirlbeast]

But I mean in a much broader sense...

[flizarraga]

I meant that the story about meeting a woman from another century that the painter tells Sarah is a ghost story in the strictest sense of the term.

(Though the painter's presence in the house, the things that may or may not happened between them, and her sudden and inexplicable disappearance are almost equally ghostly, in that stricter sense. We seem to know that she was really there because the Editor tells us so, but that's all, and it's not much to go by.)

As for both novels being about hauntings in a MUCH broader sense, well, yeah, of course. But then mostly everything you have ever written is about a haunting of sorts, some way or another. Your characters tend to be haunted people. (Albeit the haunting per se can be anything from a person, a memory, a death, an obsession, mental illness, a demon, a computer virus, or all of the above.)