wraith

Eulálio ends up being an idol, a wraith who, at 150, is not quite dead and not quite living.

This Week’s Hot Reads: Dec. 17, 2012

Jimmy So

December 18, 2012

In the strange illumination of the search beams he seemed the wraith of a scarecrow.

Across the stair she wavered, a wraith blown across the gulf of time.

They had him, but it was like getting hold of an apparition, a wraith, a portent.

Was she a woman or a wraith, this slender thing swaying in the candle-light?

This apparition of a friend has in the Scotch wraith, or Irish fetch its counterpart.