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Write about someone’s first Halloween as a ghost.

Posted in Halloween on Nov 1, 2022

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“To Haunt or Not to Haunt” by Elle Adler

Submitted to Contest #65

Learning not to breathe is a hard thing, especially since breathing was never learned to begin with. I cannot actually breathe since I am air. The best explanation I ever got is I am a gaseous form of my human memories. It’s been two months since my death, I still cannot stop trying to breathe. My ghost friends say I can dissipate if I breathe too much. I’ll start expanding, then poof. It could be hazing, though. Ghosts are known for being pranksters.  Tonight should be good. Once a year, people all over interact with us. Halloween. In...

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“Gone But Still Here” by Jamie Clark

Submitted to Contest #65

Being dead is weird. I still exist, I think, but people can’t see me. I like to move things around, little things like throwing rocks near birds or blowing the top off a dandelion, just to remind myself that I’m really still here. I wish other people would know that too. People got over my death pretty quickly, some of them did before I even died. I was gone for a while, a few years probably, before I finally got to go. That’s what I call dying because I felt dead long before it actually happened. One can hardly call wasting away, hardly abl...

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“A Decent Halloween” by Beth Edgar

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Ricky Carver was a fast-talking salesman. He wore flashy clothes; he drove expensive cars and always had a beautiful woman hanging on his arm.  Life was idyllic until that fateful night when he and his date du jour had a celebratory dinner at Valentino’s Italian Restaurant. He had just been named salesman of the year and he wanted to celebrate at his favorite place. Ricky had steak pomodoro and one too many gimlets. When it came time to leave, he realized that he had imbibed a bit too much and was thankful that ...

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“Boo Hoo” by Vanessa Kilmer

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I stood in the rain and watched the water drops splash up from the ground through the arches of my feet. The light from the street lamp sparkled and refracted on liquid beads. I turned my face up to the weeping sky and felt nothing. I was the only being out on the street tonight. The wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tube jack-o-lantern in my neighbor’s yard dodged and bobbed in the wind. The blowup ghost hissed and moaned. An umbrella, its bones turned inside out, tumbled down the avenue, skipping to the tune of spooky music blarin...

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“A White Bed Sheet” by Abigail Munoz

Submitted to Contest #65

It was my first Halloween. I had never gone trick or treating or even had ever celebrated the holiday before. My family was always weirded out by the idea of Halloween, they never quite understood it. But this year was the first year that they’ve finally agreed to let me go. I was excited, but I realized that I didn’t have a costume to wear. I had absolutely no idea what to wear. I didn't have any money to go buy a costume so I did the next best thing. I took an old white sheet, cut out two holes and made a ghost costume. I put the sheet ove...

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“Home Sweet Home” by Ellyn Siegel

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Ellyn Siegel ellyndraws@sbcglobal.net Blog: thenextchaptert.live Home Sweet Home         “Home Sweet Home”, at last!         My sweet husband, Chazz, the father of our baby, due to arrive in less than a month, is bringing in some boxes from the car while I waddle into the bedroom.         Consider man, he’s asked the movers to set up our bed first, so I can lay down as soon as we get to the house, after our long...

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“The Alleyway” by Ruth Hunter

Submitted to Contest #65

John sat down at the edge of the lawn. The grass was wet, but he didn’t feel it. He was getting used to not feeling things now. He’d been in the garden for two weeks, but it felt like a lifetime. Every day he waited and hoped that Katherine would come out and see him, but most days nothing happened. Once, she had come outside and hung the washing up on the line. He stood close to her and shouted, but of course she didn’t react. She looked like she didn’t want to spend any time in the garden. He was surprised, in a way, that she was still the...

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“Invisible” by Arnoosh Afsharnia

Submitted to Contest #65

It was 5 p.m. and the sky was slowly turning to dark blue as the day got close to its end. Chris was at a friend’s house, waiting for someone to finish doing their makeup and changing so he could do his, since his costume wasn’t something special; he was appearing as a ghost, simple.  As soon as Peter finished changing, he came out of the room and gestured to Chris as he himself was struggling with his mask. Chris jumped out of his seat on the small sofa he had been crumbled in. He went to the room which was chaotic. He put his bag down...

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“My Spooky Night-Halloween!!!” by S Afrose

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Halloween comes To scare all dares  That always haunt us Either day or night Now it's our turn  Not spare any of dare Making all of that  As a scapegoat.... The celebration of Halloween!!!! It's totally outstanding, beyond the imagination. I have always a hard dream to do sth very scary. The Halloween gives me the chance. Now my dream may be come true. The 31st October as a celebration date for Halloween. I think, I would be one of the best actresses  ever most. I have decided to take myself in a ghost ...

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“The Young Ghost” by Big Brain

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The first year.  It has been the first year Cassie had died in the car crash and she was only nine years old when it happened.  Cassie has also been alone for the past year trying to find her parents. Eventually, she has given up and decided to go back home.  Somehow she knew how to go there alone. It was almost like the house was meant for her to live in for the rest of her internity. Kids often told each other that Cassie's house was where her ghost was and that the house was haunted. While what they said wasn't wrong, Cassi...

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“I can't open the door!” by M Thomas

Submitted to Contest #65

"It's time! It's time! Halloween is near!" little Jack sang as he hopped around the living room. "Oh please, not again," answered his mother. She was not fond of Halloween. She didn't like the costumes and the sweets, the horror movies and having to stay up late. "Oh yes ma'am," answered Jack as he sat at the table, his fork in one hand, the knife in the other and his tongue licking his lips, awaiting his dinner hungrily. Right then, the phone rang and his mother hurried to answer it. A few hushed voices, an exclamation and she sh...

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“THIS HALLOWEEN” by Sylvia Lucas

Submitted to Contest #65

I have always loved Halloween but it's going to be different this year. It's going to be really different this year. From a very early age it was my favourite time of the year, Christmas was great , with all the presents and treats , but it was Halloween that I looked forward to most of all. When I was small I think my parents simply draped a white sheet over me and cut holes for eyes and I was happy telling everyone that I was a ghost; then as I got bigger the costumes became more elaborate but always I wanted to be a ghost. My elder sister...

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“Luna's Barghest” by Christy Mueller

Submitted to Contest #65

Advice To Live By If you are ever walking through the woods and come upon a large pile of crushed, black marble stones. Run away. Don’t walk. Run away and definitely do not touch the pile or try to take any of the stones with you…if you want to keep your soul. Luna There once was a free-spirited woman named Luna, who from the time she was born always worshiped the Universe and everything in it. The Moon and the stars were her best friends. She would much rather talk to plants, trees, and animals as to a person. Most humans just don’t unders...

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“What No One Tells You” by Kieri Zink

Submitted to Contest #65

I suppose this will be yet another situation where no one explains what to expect.  I should have anticipated this.  It would be one element consistent with life.   There has been much literature centered on speculations of what the afterlife looks like.  I never sought it out, but it is hard to avoid.  So much of what is read in the mortal world contains their musings.  Everything from the Bible, to Dante’s Inferno, to the Harry Potter series suggests what happens after we die.  Death, after all, is...

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“Spooky me” by Angela Sokolova

Submitted to Contest #65

As most of you know, Halloween is a holiday in which everyone dresses up in a different costume. The ghost one is most preferred. I will be with it this year! But it won’t be a costume, unfortunately. A few months ago, I had an accident with my best friend. Then I immediately came out of my body, but I did not see a spirit from her body. I followed the ambulance to the hospital, it turned out that I died on the spot, but she is alive. Then everything around the funeral and the sad moments were painful. But there was nothing I could do to ret...

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