1 Shelly’s grandma teaches her about ghosts how to carry them in her hair If you carry your ghosts in your hair you can cut them off when you don’t need them anymore Otherwise Otherwise ghosts cling to your skin dig their fingers in under your ribs and stay with you long long after you want them gone Shelly’s mother doesn’t like ghosts She doesn’t like Grandma telling Shelly about them It’s an old argument one they have every time Grandma gives Shelly a lesson You’ll scare her she says like Shelly isn’t in the room You’ll keep her up at night How is she going to take care of herself if she can’t take care of the dead Grandma asks and Shelly’s mother never has much of an answer for that So Grandma teaches Shelly about ghosts how to keep them and how to get rid of them not just her own ghosts but other people’s too Shelly likes to think of herself as her grandma’s apprentice Today Grandma’s client is a woman clad in expensive
