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Write about someone’s first Halloween as a ghost.

Posted in Halloween on Nov 1, 2022

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“A Little Too Late” by Aisa M

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When you die, you won’t matter to anyone or anything anymore except to the worms that would feast on your flesh until only your bones are left under your grave. Fragments of your flesh will soon be ashes or dust, subject to dissipation, and just another element that can cause a sneeze. Family and friends will keep you in their memories, but their world will continue to move without you. You will just be like another file in their hard drive, kept, to be forgotten. Soon you’ll fade away, and even the closest of person will start forgetting th...

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“The Trees' Hollow” by Francis Lavoie

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As I’m going down the streets of my childhood town, watching the kids in their cheap but adorable costumes, holding heavy and over-the-top plastic jack-o-lanterns, knocking over every single door, I couldn’t help but remember the time in which I was one of these happy and excited kids.I’m on my way to visit my family, as every Halloween night. It’s what I have been doing every single October 31st when the moon casts its glow on the asphalt streets and the brownish roofs of the neighborhood. I recognized most of my old friends as I was gettin...

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“My Halloween love story” by Gie Garcia

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I roam around my neighborhood when I was alive. Yes, I am indeed a dead person and I am currently roaming as an unseen entity in this world called a ghost. I actually don't remember anything about how I died and most of my memories when I was alive are all blurry and hazy. I don't know... I just suddenly woke up with a scary guy wearing an all-black outfit with a gun dangling on his belt. He introduces himself as Diether, The grim reaper. I thought grim reapers are some fairy of death or somethin' who looks like a creepy skeleton carrying ...

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“The Ghost of Halloween Past” by Kathleen March

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I can still see it all very clearly in my mind. I can see it, if one can ever see a ghost clearly, that is. Most ghosts have indefinite, fuzzy silhouettes, like the ones you see in a steamed-up mirror after a long shower or in foggy woods on November hikes. The image you almost see in the mirror is your own, of course; the one in the woods? Well, that one might be harder to identify. The figure I can still see is out there, though, and it lies somewhere between the mirror and the forest. The thing is, it appears to be frozen in a way a g...

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“A Place of Honour” by Tracey Carvill

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Sally looked at her reflection in the mirror and smiled. She had spent a long time on this costume, and it had – in her humble opinion – all paid off. She turned to and fro to admire the movement of her dress. Multiple layers of delicate white fabric almost floated in the air, ragged yet still elegant. Her blond hair fell in loose curls over her shoulders, and her pale skin was powdered to be even paler. The only bit of colour to her was in her blue eyes, which were sparkling with excitement. This was her favourite time of year. She loved th...

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“Until They Say 'Boo!'” by Jessica Inman

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Amanda is a Ghost. She tip-toes behind the Witch, the Devil and the Monster, careful not to make a sound.Ghosts are very quiet until they say 'boo!'Amanda has never said 'boo!'Silent-step-by-silent-step, she creeps behind the Bigger Children.The Witch gazes into the empty cauldron.“At the end of the night we'll be able to build a candy castle!” She cackles.“If they don't give us candy, I'll stab them with my fork!” Says the Devil, thrusting his pink plastic pitchfork high into the sky.Amanda doesn't think they will be getting very much candy...

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“My Experience - Coween” by Ashley Smith

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Mommy, Mommy can I go out tonight? "Sweetie, where do you want to go"? Mommy, Mommy I want to get a ghost costume for Halloween tonight. "Why don't you go with your father when he comes home from work"? That is how it started. Hi! My name is Kenya and I am from Jamaica. I act like a toddler but I'm really only 10 years old. I live with my mama and my papa and they are always so nice to me, even though... sometimes they just treat me like I am younger. Mama homeschools me so she can save money and she also is a teacher. I like how Mama and Pa...

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“Odds of Life” by Mylene Recones

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Seating in a lanai drinking a hot chocolate with a plate of cinnamon roll and oatmeal cookies, Sheena was so amazed with the beauty the sunset displays after a morning rain. The late afternoon breeze seems to suit her emotions. She was so preoccupied enthralling and imagining for the upcoming event. She and her cousin had been invited to attend a Halloween festivity. She was worried and at the same time thrilled for it will be her first time to attend a Halloween party. It is almost twelve midnight but Sheena wasn’t able to steady and get s...

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“Hanna's Halloween Ghost” by Jeni Conrad

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Hanna frowned and crossed her arms over her chest, hugging herself in the cold wind. “I’m not sure this is such a good idea.” “Oh, don’t be such a stiff. It’ll be fun!” Andrea nudged Hanna with an elbow as they navigated the rolling grass of the dark cemetery.  Randi giggled. “Stiff, because we’re surrounded by dead people. Get it?” Gravestones peeked up out of the gloom, their grey faces watching as the three girls walked between them. A few trees loomed overhead, their branches bare and stretching out with gnarled fingers. The w...

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“The Reaper” by Shaye Wilson

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2,000 years. Humans have been celebrating Halloween for 2,000 years. But not me. Years of celebrating Halloween with parents? 12,and Halloweens by myself? A whopping zero. This year, though, all of that will change. I’m 13 now. Everyone knows that 13 is a teenager, 13 is the archetype of Halloween, and 13 is old enough to trick-or-treat alone.  With a friend. Whatever. I look over at my new friend, the one who agreed to go trick or treating with me… didn’t she? What’s her name again? “Sara...

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“Phelia” by R. N. Jayne

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I'm having that nightmare again—the one where I'm lost in the woods. Only I'm not on dry land: I'm underwater. The forest grows tentacles. These wooden jellyfish have arms like boughs. They reach for me. Tangle my hair. Pull me down. Drowning, I choke on my love's name.***Phelia's trying on a headpiece for her dungeon mistress Halloween costume. She fiddles with the formidable crown of spikes. I wonder who she wants to repel with this getup. Maybe she wants to people to think she's impenetrable.It's been seven months since my passing. I shou...

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“The Veil” by Marissa Yates

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Sarah Williams  1991-2020  Beloved Wife It was simple. Without pretense. The headstone was still polished and gleaming, although the ground around it had settled and no longer appeared disturbed. I've read it over and over again, until the writing was burned into my mind. It haunted me when I closed my eyes, refusing to let me pretend or feign ignorance. Another stone sat beside mine, identical in dimensions and font, although fate had not yet dictated the final date. The side-by-side plots were located in a cemetery minutes f...

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“Not That Kind of Ghost” by Julie Bissell

Submitted to Contest #65

What I really wanted to do was to tell my mother that she’d been wrong about me. I was early for my own funeral. I spent the night before in the crematorium, trying and failing to knock the silk flowers out of their pots, and I was waiting beside the priest the next day to greet the congregation as they arrived. To each one he said; ‘Thank you for coming. Family in the front two pews, please.’ I said things like; ‘Pretend to cry, you old fraud – I know you’re only here for the food’ and ‘Black makes you look old, you know that?’ The last per...

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“Marital Spat” by Betsy Remington☕

Submitted to Contest #65

The last couple of weeks had been tough on Brian.  There was the fight with his wife that he couldn’t even remember, and then she had left him to go to her sister’s for a week.  Yvonne was back now, but she just ignored him and acted like he wasn’t even there.  He would try talking to her, but she would just screw her face up like she was going to cry and leave the room. So now he was left to talk to the cat.  “You’re the only one who appreciates me, buddy,” he said, stroking the tabby’s head as they sat on the couch watc...

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“What's a Little Seance Between Friends” by Isabelle Jones

Submitted to Contest #65

James watched with open interest as a group of schoolchildren ran past the bench he'd been parked on since the night before. They were dressed in colorful costumes, though one wore a sheet over his head and sort of lackadaisically jogged after the rest. He chuckled at the display, as he felt a certain kinship to the spirit of the costumes, a ghost of all things, in a poorly made costume, unenthusiastic but moving along with the flow of things. It was a dreary morning, but the spirit of Halloween for the youth was undampened. James himself f...

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