title: Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave And The Commodification Of Ghosts
author:  Grafton Tanner 
description: <span><span>Grafton Tanner is a writer and musician from Georgia.</span></span>
zlib_text: Chapter 1. Heaven
  
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  •vy woke, stretched, and opened her eyes. It was dawn; the sun had not yet
  quite dared show its round face, because darkness made it nervous, but soon it
  would get up its nerve. She looked at the Tapestry, with its ever-changing
  picture of Xanth. She never really tired of watching it, though her interest
  waxed and waned. It waxed when it rained outside because it was more fun to
  remain inside where it was dry, and it waned when Zora Zombie was waxing the
  stairs and the smell of the wax got chokingly thick. Thus, as she put it, it
  waxed when it waned, and waned when it waxed. It was her private joke with
  Dt^ph? the adults didn't understand. Adults were chroni-cal^slow about such
  things.
  
  Sure enough, Zora was waxing today; the smell was just starting. Ivy had only
  minutes to find a pretext to go far away, several days if possible, until the
  wax settled down.
  
  But she was running out of pretexts; what was left?
  
  She jumped out of bed so suddenly she frightened th