Fiction

The Nuisance

‘I tried to act as if the ghost had no possible effect on me. This seemed like the easiest device. It was actually quite hard.’

Alexander Chee
Human Parts
Published in
13 min readOct 24, 2018

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Illustration: Zoe Van Dijk

FFor a long time, it was almost a play we would enact every time someone new visited us. But only if they saw him. This time, a friend was visiting from London and seeing our apartment in New…

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Alexander Chee
Human Parts

Author of the novels THE QUEEN OF THE NIGHT and EDINBURGH, and the essay collection HOW TO WRITE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL.