Aaron Mooney

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“A Ghost's Story” by Aaron Mooney

Submitted to Contest #221

It starts with the nightmare. Not every night, necessarily, but enough of them to burn an image into my mind’s eye, like staring into the sun. It climbs the stairs leading up to my room where I sleep, where I work and eke out my meager existence. I shouldn’t call it an It, really, when I know in my gut that it’s a He.He calls himself Stanley; that’s what I hear in my sleep, whispered in my ear where his breath touches me like wisps of smoke. Sometimes he does more tangible things than that. I hear Him walking up the stairs leading to my room...

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Hi, my name is Aaron. I grew up in the Midwest, learning to read Mark Twain's books from a young age--I still remember reading Huckleberry Finn's adventures with the help of my mom before starting kindergarten, so I guess you could say that's where my love affair with the written word began. I've always been a voracious reader, and will read whatever strikes my fancy. I started writing creatively when I was 14, and now that I'm 37 I continue to hone my craft. I began with Star Wars fan fiction, then graduated to other genre fiction pieces. I am in the process of writing more than one novel--I'm a multitasker--as well as many short stories. Someday soon, I will be published. That is my mantra. I live in Illinois with my family and two wonderful cats, Doc (as in Holliday) and Desmond (as in Hume, the philosopher and television's Lost character).