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Write about someone’s first Halloween as a ghost.

Posted in Halloween on Nov 1, 2022

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“My First Halloween as a Ghost” by Charlotte Lewis

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My First Halloween as a Ghost Everyone seems to be in a hurry today. I haven't been a ghost very long and am still learning how to keep my sheet clean. For some reason I thought that kind of chore would be taken care of by someone other than me. Wrong. There's one ghost in my community that is fairly new, I think, but he seems to have it all together. Maybe he can explain the increase in activity to me. Can you believe it? I forgot Halloween. Me, the world's greatest prankster and costume creator in all of Washington State. I forgot Hallowe...

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“The vampire costume” by Evi K

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I'd never seen Kelly so restless. Chocolate bars and jelly beans sat comfortably in a bowl right under the light of the little jack o'lantern we carved together. She looked beautiful under its light as well. That's why I loved looking at her while she stood outside. She smiled just like an angel. Her white hand softly picked a chocolate and slipped it in every kid's bag. She then asked, with the most enchanting voice, "What's your favorite color?". She would then proceed to take a jelly bean of the color they said and hand it to them. She wo...

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“THE DOORWAY” by Emmeline Bisiikwa

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It was said that every Halloween, the veil between the land of the living and the dead was thin. This meant that things could cross over, and people could reach the other side too. It had been a few months since the gruesome car accident where I died. My husband Robert had survived the crash. All I felt was cold. Deep impenetrable cold in my bones, except I, had no bones. As a ghost, feelings were reduced to the primal urges: anger, cold, love. I could never get warm, and so I got used to the cold seeping in every minute. The other ghost...

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“Forgotten” by Steph N

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After years of waiting, it was finally time. Aliah was turning 16 today. She combed her long black hair and washed her face. She put on her favorite pair of baggy black pants and a green hoodie and headed out the door. She walked down a small hallway to a staircase that led down to the first floor of her home. In the small kitchen, her mom was making pancakes. She had short black hair and was wearing penguin PJ’s. “Morning, Aliah.” She said as Aliah sat down at the rickety old table. Her mom reached above the stove into a cabinet and pul...

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“The last will” by Madame Sherlyn

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Being dead of old age, I, Sam Collins, died without any regrets. Or so they say. My life of 89 years had been more or less the kind you call 'joyful'. Having grown up in a pretty pleasant environment with an affluent landlord as a father. Added the benefit of being the only son, the family business was passed onto me as I had no other sibling but a younger sister. Life went on, I went to college, fell in love, married, and had kids and then grandkids. There you see, I had it all. I was flawlessly blessed with a perfect life. Yet, I am st...

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“My First Halloween as a Ghost” by Ian MacVicar

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           No one is more surprised than I am to be telling the story of my first (and only) Halloween as a ghost. I really did not expect to have this dubious honour until much, much later in (my past) life.           I contracted COVID-19"Who knows where?" It may have happened at the “small neighbourhood gathering” of 20 people at school year end, or possibly in the grocery store in early July when someone behind me in line sn...

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“Never Forget Me” by Asher Russ

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September 28th 3:15 am, that was when I died. I was on the way home from work when my car flew off the I-95 going 86 miles per hour. The road was slick and there was a slight mist in the air. I died immediately on impact. I don't know why I know all of that stuff, it's just something that you know when you die. I stepped out of my car right after it stopped rolling, except I did not have to use the door, I just sort of drifted. I could not feel solid objects, I traveled right through them and they through me. I realized that I had become an...

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“Spooky me” by Angela Sokolova

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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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“The Bedsheet Veil” by Katelynn Laird

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The Bedsheet Veil Halloween had always been my favorite time of year. The spooky decorations, dressing up, free candy: I loved it all. Halloween never failed to create that feeling in the air that anything could happen. People reverted to their inner child-at-heart (if they weren’t kids to begin with, anyway). Laughs came more easily. Even getting scared was somehow fun, an adventure. I’d donned a long line of awesome costumes through the years, if I do say so myself, from Ninja Turtle to pirate to zombie-rock star (of course that is a thin...

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“What No One Tells You” by Kieri Zink

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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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“SOMEONE IS OVER THERE..!!” by PRISHA SHARMA

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Over 40 years ago, Anne and her friend were having a peaceful and enjoyable Halloween night — until the unexplained moaning and laughing began. Four decades later, Anne can recall that night of terror as if it happened yesterday. Ghosts and Supernatural Creatures Some people believe that October 31st, Halloween , is a time when the space that separates our reality from the dimension of ghosts and the supernatural is at its thinnest. That is why this time of year is given to the obsession and experience with spirits, haunting, unnatural creat...

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“Fright Night Newby” by Teresa Fairhurst

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Halloween had always been one of his favourite times of year. All the dressing up and gruesome make up appealed to him. So did creeping up on people or jumping out at them to give them a scare. ‘What do you think to this one?’ Alan asked, striking a threatening pose in a clown suit and with a murderous look on his face. ‘Brilliant,’ Max said. He was enjoying watching everyone selecting their look for the special night and trying to decide what he was going to do. The problem was that something was distracting him. There was something murm...

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“Polaroids of You” by Leigh English

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Why they rushed you to the hospital was anybody's guess. You were dead on arrival, you heard the EMTs say as much as you looked over your body. You were in a car accident, and you hadn't been wearing your seatbelt. Why hadn't you just worn your seatbelt, dammit? Then your body wouldn't have been launched through the windshield at mach speed when you accidentally swerved headfirst into the signpost. Then your parents' car wouldn't be wrecked and you wouldn't be, well, dead. The EMTs loaded your body into the ambulance, unaware that you were...

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“The Misguided Adventures of Ghostie Girl” by Christine Goucher

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Rail Road High School Two Weeks Before Halloween “Hey Phi, did you figure out what you are going to do for Halloween yet?” Emica asked.  “Probably spend some time with my family and then maybe watch some scary movies. How about you?” Phoenix asked as she continued etching a ghost figure into her desk.  “Aww...ok. I was going to see if you wanted to go to a Haunted House with me and Rachel? She was asking if you wanted to go with us?” “Rachel asked really?” “Yeah, I think she might like you!!!” “Yeah right! I might be able to go I...

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“When Tricks Turn to Treats” by Kelly Montague

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T/W: suicide    “What are you doing here? On Halloween? Are you crazy?” “Huh?” I turned around and saw a pale figure hovering over the roof I was currently sitting on. “Holy shi-” “Woah, chill. Keep it clean. You’re new to this, aren’t you?”  The figure is a ghost. He’s a young guy. Maybe a few years older than me when I died. I never thought they were real. Until I became one. “New to what?” “Wow. You really are a newbie. I’m Noah.”  Noah looked kind of handsome, if I do say so myself. I pushed that thought away, because...

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