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 Any story is a journey. So: a good prompt might be..... I move to a haunted house. Here is where things tend to get conventional. There are horrors upon horrors; attic stairs begin creaking; candles seem to light themselves. But the writer Kazuno Kohara is inspired, and she does something fun with the prompt. I move to a haunted house. Fortunately, I myself am a witch. And we're off to the races. The speaker is delighted to encounter various ghosts--"how wonderful!"--and she collects the ghosts in a hamper. Then, the ghosts are laundered. And they become: tablecloths, drapes, and quilts. Exhausted from her work, the speaker realizes she needs to sleep. So: the final ghost becomes a bedsheet. The End. This looks easy--which suggests that it's the framework of a good picture-book. The small white cat--in a witch-dress--is an added bonus.