phantom

The “phantom punch” abruptly ended the fight approximately two minutes into the first round.

The smell of dust and toner mixed with the butter-fat perfume of whatever phantom feast I was imagining.

But this time, it’s being presented off-Broadway in a radically reconceived version, dubbed “Masquerade,” that lets audiences get up close and personal with the phantom himself.

"Our company has never disappeared, we have responded to every email, so we are not a phantom company."

At holidays or graduations or milestone birthdays, we’d joke about phantom hunger pangs, gesturing to the empty spot where the foil tray should’ve been.