Category: Ghosts
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Shush
And the Hallowe’en posts continue! In the dead of night Even your whispers seem loud I have one word. Shush.
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The Echoes
And the Hallowe’en posts continue! Through the halls, they carry their messages with them. Not their messages, exactly, but everyday words or footsteps or screams. They like slamming doors, and musical notes and whispers. They love whispers. Wooden floors, marble floors, and large cavernous spaces… they lurk in corners, waiting for something to carry. They…
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The Unicorn Challenge: Found
And the Hallowe’en posts continue! Coming! Ready or not! Philip listened to the scampering footsteps as his friends ran to their hiding places. He knew someone had run upstairs; out through the back door; moved a sofa; and into the kitchen… the creak of the door gave that one away. Aha! He peered behind the…
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Night’s Children
And the Hallowe’en posts continue! Each night they wait By the roadside Eyes transfixed On the darkness Waiting For the children to appear Each night they wait In the darkness Eyes transfixed Listening carefully For the night to whisper Gently Coldly The children They’re here
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The House
It isn’t so much the look of the house, that’s bothersome. Neither is it the skit skit skit noise as the sharp, claw-like branches tap the draughty windows. It’s the way the windows distort the shadowed figures within. The way the light highlights the faces in them, even with no one there. There is no…
