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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 Walk in the Hereafter” by Tim Benson

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“A Walk in the Hereafter” It’s taking a lot longer than I thought it would. Of course, there’s no guidebook for dead people, at least as far as I know. After three months I’m still trying to get used to being dead. Even using that word is hard to adapt to. When death comes, people use terms like “He passed away” or “He’s in a better place”. It makes them feel better but the person is still dead and words can’t change that. It’s just how people adjust to the whole situation. And one of the biggest things I’m trying to adjust to is that sinc...

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“Thinking in Pictures” by Mutant Llama

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Most of the world has stopped believing altogether by now, and stop practicing, and stopped following dogmatic rules, so I don’t think anybody’s gone to heaven in quite a while. Thanks possibly to my study of theology, I was just barely good enough to get into their purgatory. Nobody on Earth really knew what purgatory was, though. They explained the rules to me, though. I am sent to earth, in a ghostly form. I have no physical body. I move through things, nobody can sense me, except for a cold sensation when my spectral form intersects the...

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“Unionised Halloween.” by Len Mooring

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“You’ve got to be kidding. A union for ghosts; I don’t believe it, and a closed shop union to boot? Get out of here.“No, I don’t mean ‘Get out of here.’ It’s an American expression for ‘I find it difficult to duplicate the intention or statement you are conveying to me.’“Jesus Christ, to use another expression I’ve picked up from the many streaming programs that litter the airwaves, you must be familiar with these ‘low class’ expletives to express disbelief. However, to get back to the original point, you’ve got to be kidding, a ‘closed shop...

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“A Ghost's Wardrobe” by L. B. Walt

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Meredith knew she was dead. It was obvious. The thumping headache she discovered as soon as she stood up in her designer pajamas, the enormous stain of blood she was now standing over, not to mention the ominous silhouette - her final resting place - clumsily outlined in cheap white cello-tape on her expensive hand-woven Moroccan rug. It was very clear that Meredith was one hundred percent dead. But, not so obvious to Meredith was who killed her. The expansive thirteenth-floor penthouse overlooks the downtown district of Dallas and glim...

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“Untitled” by Ashlyn Leung

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"Get the bloody hammer!" "What's a damn hammer gonna do against A GHOST!" "I DON'T. KNOW!" Insert record scratch sound here. Hey, I bet you're wondering how I got to this point. No you're not. Welcome to the house of clichés, my friend. On with the story! Anyways, to understand how I got here we have to go back to when I was just a normal high school girl in a town not big enough to get on the map. The boys and girls in the clique- the awful names that they stick- you're never gonna fit in much, kid. I definitely didn't fit in, but who did e...

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“First Timer” by Joe Poole

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The last thing I remember was that I was walking home on New Year's eve. I always took a walk to have alone time and reflect on the previous year. As I rounded a bend in the road, I was blinded by headlights........... Then thud...... Nothingness surrounded me. Not the bright light to go to that you hear so much about. Just nothingness.... Now, here I am almost a year after being laid to rest so to speak, I am awake. Did I wake from a coma and who are all this grotesque figures surrounding me? Suddenly, one of the figures smiles and then sp...

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“ghostly perspectives” by Anna Godfrey

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when she woke up, it was almost sundown. the first Halloween she spent as a ghost would mean she could go out of the house and finally see her kids and sun. unlike many ghosts, she was friendly. the ghosts could also relocate to abandoned mansions or were their friends and family were. little did anyone know, but most families had a ghost in their house, making sure that no one broke in. the families that got killed didn't have ghosts. when she had pushed out of the window, as it was midnight and Halloween had just started, she could final...

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“I don't want you to stop haunting me” by Miles Spades

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It took me a while to realize I was dead, not dreaming. Have you ever had a dream where you dragged yourself out of bed, brushed your teeth, got dressed for work, and then woke up and realized you were actually still in your bed? It was kind of like that, except that I realized my body was still in my bed, but I wasn't. I was scared, but also relieved. I've always feared death like nothing else. I've dreaded it since I found out about it. I was terrified to stop existing. But it wasn’t as bad as I feared. I’m not alive, but I still exist! I...

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“A Ghostly Visit” by Marcia H.

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“It’s that time of the year again. My favorite time.” Lucy floated past Bernie and gave him a ghostly wink. “What are you talking about Lucy?” Bernie asked Lucy. “Oh right. You are a new ghost and you don’t know about the legend of  All-Hallows, which most of the people who aren’t ghosts call Halloween.” Lucy said hovering over Bernie. Bernie remembered Halloween of the past. When he was alive he and his wife, Taime, used to get costumes for all four of the kids. Sometimes Tamie  would even make the kids costumes. Their you...

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“Spooktacular” by Greg Gillis

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           It was Halloween night and all of the kiddies were dressed in costume representing their favorite superheroes, cutest princess, or scariest monster.            This was the night that Montague Spinnaker waited for all year. It had always been his favorite time of the year. He found such amusement in dressing up in costume and frightening the children as they came to his door ‘Trick-or-Treating’. He was infamous for setting...

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“Ethereal Halloween” by C Britt

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A week ago, I got out of bed and turned around to see that my body didn't come with me. I thought at first that I was dreaming. It was only when I watched my husband trying to wake my lifeless body that I realized I had died. When I was still alive, I used to imagine what someone would feel when they became a ghost. I used to think that watching your loved ones mourn would be sad; that no longer being part of the physical world would be frightening. But it turns out, that isn't the case. Maybe I'm still in shock, or maybe a physical body ...

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“A Visit with My Best Friend” by Arizona Foster

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It was a familiar, homey scent that reached my nose first and made my eyes flicker open with hope. Could it be true? Was I back home with my favorite person in the whole, wide world? I looked around cautiously, unsure of what would greet me first. I felt like I had been in a haze of sorts. Things weren’t quite as I remembered them. Nothing I knew as a cat made any sense lately. Not that I could articulate what I experienced recently; I only knew it wasn’t like it had been during my time with Bianca.B, as everyone so lovingly referred to...

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“Jackie Marbles” by Steve Stigler

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“Excuse me, how long can I expect this to take?”“You in a rush?”Was he? Didn’t he have somewhere to be? For the life of him, Jackie couldn’t remember. Let’s see, he had been sitting right there, in that avocado-green plastic chair next to the old guy. Well, old was a relative term. After all, Jackie himself was old. Not old old, but old enough. Old enough to have survived a ridiculously melodramatic marriage and old enough to have a grown daughter, and old enough to have survived the Big C. He did survive, right? “Have a seat, please,” ...

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“The Living and the Dead” by D. Alfonso

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The last thing I remembered was the impact. One second, I was standing in the street. The next, I was lying on the pavement. Then, everything went black. When I opened my eyes again, everything was different. I was standing on a different street outside a cemetery, but that wasn’t the most surprising thing. I distinctly remembered it being summer, but now the decorations screamed Halloween. Surely, I had just closed my eyes for a moment. And why did everything feel so weird? Why did I feel weird? “You new here,” someone asked. I turned to ...

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“Stereotypical Introspection” by Joe Swanson

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Stereotypical Introspection “Howard!” “What?” “You going out tonight?” “NO!” “Why not?” They ask the same question every year, and I give them the same answer. What is so special about this one night? Does one day or night, a week, month, year, century, really make a difference, after you are dead? Faces change, people fear differing things, but fear doesn’t drastically change the emotion elicited, or the reaction invoked. Take Jeremy for instance. He is one of those wanting to know, why I don’t care about going out tonigh...

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