This Is Us

My Roommate, the Ghost

She doesn’t pay rent, but we’re doing okay

Sara Benincasa
Human Parts
Published in
15 min readJan 26, 2021

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Detail from “The Bowden Children,” John Hoppner, 1803

My dead roommate broke a dish the other day, so we had to have a talk. I’ll call her Annie, since she’s a ghost and can’t consent to being included in this essay. I like to ask permission for things like that. But I will tell you about our chat.

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Sara Benincasa
Human Parts

Author, REAL ARTISTS HAVE DAY JOBS & other books. Writer of scripts. Host of WELL, THIS ISN’T NORMAL podcast. Patreon.com/SaraBenincasa