Write a story about someone who is haunted. Whether by a ghost or something else is up to you.

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“Why His Bastard Forsworn The Joke Severely Lost, a confession” by E Moss

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One of the biggest problems I have worked at until independent of this lesson throughout my life was the adoration of a visitor who was simply giving what my father was never meant to give me as a child, despite the long and hard struggle he fought for seeing me, a visitor from his illness undefiled by what happened between him and me, judging from how swept with furious sorrow he belched in front of me, no longer could stay assimilated into that illness which choked him sincerely at the end of that visit, soon his illness was determined to ...

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“The Lake ” by Kiyana Marie

Submitted to Contest #221

*Story Contains: Substance Abuse, Violence, & brief mention of suicide. Every telephone poll, store in town, and news station had her face plastered all over. It was a nightmare, seeing her face everywhere I turned. The picture her parents had chosen to be used was her junior year school photo that she had taken a month prior. I can still see her light brown eyes, the color of hot chocolate; you could see the innocence in them. She had light brown hair to match her eyes; it was long and naturally wavy. She was the only girl I knew who...

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“Logan” by Niki Cloutier

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I’ve known Logan since we were kids. Well, some adults still have in their heads that we’re kids. I thought by sixteen we were considered young adults, and by eighteen we were legal adults. Regardless, I’ve known Logan since elementary. I met him on the playground - as kids do - where he was decking Bobby Wesler. I don’t remember why, but he probably deserved it. Unfortunately, Bobby’s dad was friends with mine, and as I watched that brat get wailed on, I could practically hear my father’s belt unfurling. I was forced to intercept a well-des...

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Write a story about someone who is haunted. Whether by a ghost or something else is up to you.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 138 stories

“Why His Bastard Forsworn The Joke Severely Lost, a confession” by E Moss

“The Lake ” by Kiyana Marie

“Logan” by Niki Cloutier

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Write a story from a ghost’s point of view.

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Set your story in a world where contacting the dead is as easy as making a phone call.

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