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Write about someone’s first Halloween as a ghost.

Posted in Halloween on Nov 1, 2022

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“That Night” by The-Burrowing-Owl- Author

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It was a beautiful night for a walk, but no honest and good people would ever dare to venture into the woods. It was a place for devils and ghosts after all. And ghosts there were upon this of all nights. Those who had more substance than others would go seeking their families, and some would succeed. But many would wander muttering amongst the druids until the next sun rose in the East. A few fluttering spirits brushed against the edge of a settlement, nothing that those with clear sight would find unusual. But on this year, there was ...

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“To Die is a Great Adventure” by Daniel Roueche

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I’m dead.  And I don’t mean I’ve-done-something-so-horrible-my-parents-are-going-to-kill-me-dead. I mean, I’m literally dead. Like my physical body is rotting in a grave. I think. I still haven’t been able to find it, but that’s not the point.   The point is, I’m not alive anymore, but I’m not going to let that stop me from living. You know? So, I’m making the best of it.  That’s why I’ve brought my little brother, Carter, along with me on my first Halloween adventure without a pulse. Just so you know, Carter isn’t dea...

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“My friend with glasses” by Adilene Victoria

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I jumped off the already leaving bus and hit the asphalt beneath me. I turned towards the school and walked while holding my breath through the buzzing crowd. I was shaking. Blame it on nerves if someone asks. Keep eyes on ground. Waves crashing over and over. I glanced up to see where I was going, and someone caught my eyes. There was this kid at school. He stood out, so I wearily walked over to him. He wore thick glasses, a red jersey and jeans. He was my first frie...

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“Ghost-” by Libby Carter

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   Ghost-an apparition of a person who has died.     I am a ghost.    I am an apparition of a dead person.    I miss being alive.    I watch as my older sister dresses her daughter in the costume of a witch. It’s Halloween night, and Gin’s taking Clementine out trick-or-treating.     I wish I could be there.    Well, I am there. I wish they could see me. I wish I could tell Clem how cute she looks. I wish I could ask her for a p...

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“Um... Boo?” by Lourdes Cruz

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Yūrei opened her eyes, sitting up in a... graveyard? That was strange, she didn't remember falling asleep there. Looking around, she stood and began to wander around. Maybe someone could tell her what had happened. She saw no one. "Where... Am I?" She asked aloud. "You seem lost." She jumped, turning to stare at the person to who the voice belonged. A glowing blue boy dressed in an 1800's newsboy attire. He appeared to look like a newsboy. "I am... but who are you?"  She responded. He gave a playful smirk, ti...

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“Costumes” by Kendall Defoe

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His outfit was the best. It was just a ghost costume, just like mine. No one wanted to really go out this year, but I had an idea about what I wanted to be and I could not shake it this time. A ghost. My mom did not mind at all. She said that I was getting too old for ‘tricks and treating yourself,’ but she’d let me go around with some friends. That was another lie that I had tell her just to get out of the house. All of my ‘friends’ were staying home, or they were going out to cause trouble by kicking in pumpkins or thro...

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“A Wish Never Granted ” by Arianna Noelle

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~ That’s the thing about befriending death: you’re not so scared when it finally comes for you. ~ “Rest in Peace”.Those are words we save for the dead.What no one tells you is that “rest” and “peace” aren’t words that are typically associated with the afterlife.Living people are funny like that. They think that once your earthly heart stops beating you’re automatically gifted with a storybook happily ever after.What no one tells you is that those earthly sorrows follow you into the unknown.One moment you’re a girl with blood running through ...

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“A Date with Destiny.” by Marsha Webb

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Janet got her phone out for the hundredth time that morning “One last look.” she said wistfully. She had been single for eighteen months and had had a succession of unsuitable and disastrous dates. “I am going to look one last time then delete the whole app.” She resolved. Flicking through the same losers faces and hopeless cases she stopped. “I haven’t seen him before.” Her fingers rested at Everett Johnson, dark and mysterious looking, her caught her eye. “Occupation……Doctor, great I have always fancied dating a doctor”. Before she had had...

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“The Day I Did It” by 🌮 Kao Crimsonstar 🌮

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I didn’t want to wake up on Halloween. Oh, yes, ghosts indeed do sleep. The only way we’re different from you living freaks is that we’re incorporeal entities, meaning that we don’t have bodies, and we don’t consume food or water. Or have bodily functions. Yes, we can touch ourselves and each other, and, yes, we can feel. And yes, we do wear clothes. Ghost clothes. Back to the subject of discussion – the day that had dawned on me. Halloween. 31st October. A day, that, even just a year ago, I regarded as a way to get free candy and spend at ...

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“The Powers of Persuasion” by Deborah Mercer

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Author's Note Some may recognise Eve and Francesca from my earlier story Eve Makes her Mind up. I hadn't planned on meeting up with them again quite so soon, but this prompt virtually brought them into the room! That said, I hope it also works as a stand-alone story.  Eve Williamson was proving something of a problem for the ghosts of Fleetby Hall. Oh, they acknowledged that it wasn’t her fault, and she left them in no doubt that it wasn’t her choice. But that was the way it worked. If you met a premature death at Fleetby ...

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“The Ghost of Hallow's Eve” by Mel Kheios

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"I'm here, Jesse." Hanzo's figure is merely a darker shade of night, highlighted by the dim glow of the clear, moonless velvet sky. He stands lonely, surrounded by the empty grass lot pockmarked with small stone markers. His voice is soft, broken, hardly daring to break the spell of the night, and Jesse's heart breaks as he speaks again, no more than a whisper. "If what you said is true... If the veil between worlds is truly at its thinnest tonight... Please. Come back to me." "Oh, darlin'," Jesse breathes, aching for his lover, his belove...

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“The Apprentice.” by Patricia Green

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Daniel stood at the window looking out over the busy two-lane highway. “Where the hell am I?” Daniel didn’t recognise anything, but he knew this wasn’t his office building. He couldn’t remember anything since he went to bed to try to ease his headaches. Daniel had been having very bad headaches for the last month or so and he intended to go to see his GP, but had been putting it off, today the headache seemed to have gone. He turned around and started to walk towards the door of the room, but realised he still had his white- rabbit- patt...

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“Hollow Heart” by Vameerah Darren

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I shouldn’t be spending Halloween like this. Milling around, seeing all, but not being seen. I’ve been dead for a year now, trapped in my wooden cage. Tonight will be the first time that I have left it since my soul was entrapped here. It would be the first Halloween that I would spend without my family. I had died in a car accident, it was instant on impact. I hadn’t gotten to say goodbye to my boyfriend, or my family. Finally, the sun went down and I heard the click of the lock on the coffin. I floated out and into the open air. I kn...

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“Rosemary's Kindness” by Tim Law

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Rosemary remembered the first time she saw the boy. His chestnut hair so glossy was half hidden under a bleach blonde wig. He was hunched over with a big hump on his back. That Halloween he had dressed as Quasimodo. He had stood on her porch and politely knocked. Rosemary thought he could not have been more than seven years old and in her opinion seven was way too young to be out alone. “Come in,” she had said and encouraged the boy to enter her home. It had not been until after, when she had spoken with her daughter about the strange visi...

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“Rewriting my fate” by Matouš Kejval

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Trigger warning: domestic violence   I slowly walk closer to my bed, lift the blanket, and tuck myself under it. I know well that I will get little to no sleep tonight. I stare at the ceiling while thinking about last year’s horrors. It’s Halloween tomorrow... Normally I would be thinking about what my wife and I would do while Christopher is out trick-or-treating. It’s not going to be the same this year. I haven’t talked to my family since last Halloween. Don’t get me wrong, I want to talk to them, but it is not possible. Acc...

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