Character Driven around the Bend

Stories can be stories
With little to no plot,
But without character,

Characters human or
Modeled after humans,
They’re just explanations

Or accounts, no matter
How much happens In them.
Stories, human stories

Are for humans to think
About other humans.
They can be fairy tales,

Space operas, tech noir,
Fantasies of all kinds
With all kinds of monsters,

But human behaviors,
Human psychologies,
Haunt all ghosts that haunt them.