Elise Carson isn’t sure if a) she is crazy, b) she is being stalked, c) she is being haunted or d) all of the above. Someone, or something, is moving objects in her rental, shredding her newspaper and strangely enough, doing a bit of housework. Her best friend, Vickie, chooses answer a. Living alone for the first time has perhaps caused Elise more stress than she realizes. Never mind that Elise is the most together person Vickie has ever known. The alternative is improbable. Her discovery of a brutal attack on a young woman in that very house several years before has Elise choose option c. The increase in intensity of the disturbances, after Elise begins dating Max, strengthens her conviction. Perhaps the «ghost» thinks it is protecting Elise from «unwanted» male attention. If she confides her fears to Max, will he run for the hills? A suspicious accident and a creepy paramedic force Elise’s hand and if she wants to lead a normal life again, she must pass her multiple choice test or face the consequences. She never stops to consider that the exam might be fixed. The Presence, a commercial fiction novel, clocks in at 129, 365 words.