Category: Ghosts
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Bride
The church was as she remembered it the first time. Cold. Echoey. She could hear the choir, in her mind’s eye, and if she looked through this eye she could see them standing below the large colourful window. When she looked at this through her normal vision, she saw the ruins, the crumbling remains of…
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The Unicorn Challenge: White Shadow
The Unicorn Challenge, hosted by Jenne Gray and C E Ayr, asks we write up to 250 words based on inspiration gained from a photo they provide. Here is this week’s photo: And here are my words: The last customers left the theme park, and even before the echoes of my sweet pomegranate had faded…
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Spell
Mark my words, Watch this space, Do the wrong thing, See my face. Heed my words, Within this taunt, Cross my path, And you I’ll haunt.
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Dark Earring
Clock ticks seem to echo through the darkening silence. On the dust-covered wooden floorboards, a black pearl lies unseen, lost years before. Its owner, too lost within the haunted thoughts of her own mind, has yet to realise her earring is without a pearl. Although, as she rocks gently with the cabin in its final…
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The Unicorn Challenge: The Sepia Spectre
Legend has it that a spectre, a ghost, or an entity, resides within every single photograph. The older the photograph, the more obvious the spectre’s presence becomes. Strange marks appearing over a person’s face being one example… or a face that seems to superimpose itself over a cloudy sky is another. Sir Langholm Newton, an…
