In the winter of 2018, a closed bowling alley in Zanesville, Ohio, still had its lights on every Sunday night. Luna's neighbor, an old woman named Vera, claimed she had a key and that the lanes were still oiled. One December, Luna followed her there. The building smelled of ammonia and old paper, the pins stood at attention in every lane, and the scoring screens showed games that had never ended. Vera rolled a perfect game in the dark, talking to someone Luna couldn't see. What Luna saw in the wooden floor — the patterns in the dust, the way the pins reset themselves — stayed with her longer than any ghost story. A quiet episode about rituals, memory, and the places that refuse to stop playing.