This Was Also Home
an excerpt

"Lee! Lee, get back here before I pound your behind!" Karin screamed with increasing frustration and fear. It was a moment before she felt the chill. Progressively she became aware that the inside of the house did not look the way she thought it would from the outside. Then, as the hairs began to stand up on her arms and the back of her neck, she realized that the house shouldn't look like this at all. Karin gulped audibly, attempting to mentally sort out the horror that her body was already processing. Not far ahead, through a fog, she saw Lee, stopped stock still in the middle of a hallway that suddenly seemed substantial. He obeyed her without complaint when she reached him and grabbed his hand.
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The figure, a short, thin female figure in clothing from early in the last century flitted through the opening again, this time from left to right. Shortly thereafter, she quickly moved back across. By this time, Karin had ceased to be fearful of the figure. She seemed harmless enough, for someone who wasn't there, Karin thought wryly. Holding tightly to her son's hand, she crept quietly down the hallway. Even Lee, a perpetual tornado of sound and energy, held his steps to a quiet crawl and did not say a word. When they peeked into the kitchen, the sight which met their eyes caused Karin to stop breathing. The kitchen, beautifully restored, was full of small women intent on their task of getting a meal on the table. Although they looked largely substantial, Karin could almost see the outlines of the cabinets and work table through their bodies. And their faces were the living, moving images which she'd only seen before in old black-and-white photographs. Karin stifled an urge to cry out, then to merely cry as she recognized her great-aunts, then her great-grandmother. Another two figures moved quickly inside and Karin saw her great-uncle Elof and then the beautiful, young face of her grandmother, before she slid senseless to the floor.