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Write about someone’s first Halloween as a ghost.

Posted in Halloween on Nov 1, 2022

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“The Hunt” by Lisa Hills

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Yurei was a people person. An extrovert. She loved being amongst people, interacting with them, and just being around them in general. She can't seem to stay away from people, and they seemed to like her too. People always noticed her, laughed and joked with her, even if they were complete strangers. Yurei had this... charisma about her, allowing her to get along with anyone and everyone. She rarely met anyone who didn't like her or didn't get along with her. In other words, she was an extremely bubbly extrovert and made friends wherever she...

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“The Paper Ghost” by Ethan Chi

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   ”What?” I asked, sleepily, lying face-down on the bed. “Ring! Ring!” Said my alarm clock. I was so sleepy I couldn’t throw my super 2000 alarm sleeper at him. As usual. But along with being sleepy, I also felt angrrrry at him.      Wait, I forgot to introduce myself! I am [uuuhhh...] Iwearbadcloth Nonenoy. And if you read clearly, it's true.  I wear bad clothes, and no one knows why. It’s true. My clothes are bogus. Proof: I’ll show you my closet. 👖 🧦 🧦  🎽👒🧤🧣👠🥾 👙👗👢👡👘   &nbs...

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“A Ghost Story” by Nancy Davis

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 A Ghost Story   Grace lay quietly in the hospital bed. Her heart monitor showed a slowing of her heartbeat. Her husband sat beside her bed crying. Grace felt as if she were melting into the bed. She tried patting her husbands’ hand, she felt cold creeping up her body. Her legs felt like ice. She breathed through her mouth gasping for every breath. Her husband kept raising her gown to feel her legs. He could feel the cold moving up her body. Grace quietly wondered what was on the ...

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“Ghostly Memories” by Sue M

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Levi pulled a black shirt from his closet, black jeans from the laundry basket and a pair of mismatched black socks from an assorted pile of things behind the bedroom door. After getting dressed, he slipped on a pair of black sneakers and put on a black baseball cap that he decorated with two felt triangles to look like ears.This will have to do, Levi thought.Since early February, Levi startled when he looked in the mirror. After taking a few seconds to compose himself, he drew whiskers onto his face using a piece of coal from the barbeque g...

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“A Treat For You” by Katelynn Holden

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It was Akari's first Halloween in her new form. She watched as her family set up decorations for the wonderful holiday. On the bright side, she didn't have to worry about getting her costume ready, because she was already a ghost. Akari's little brother, Hoshi, looked up at her while holding his bag for trick-or-treating. He wore a Superman costume, with his red cape flapping as he ran around the living room in delight."Akari, aren't you excited for Halloween?" Hoshi grinned."I sure am! But I won't be able to prank my neighbors with my scary...

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“Do Not Be an Ostrich for Halloween” by Cassie Poormokhtar

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        For thirty years, I ate candy corn with you. Now I watch you eat it without me. Setting off the motion sensors on your security system and taking down your dad’s Internet from time to time, those are the ways I haunt you.        I come to your dreams; sometimes you remember, other times, you don’t. The second night I was dead, I threw a photo from your dad’s dining table—the dining table that was up until two nights prior, my dining table, too—and for you...

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“Our First Halloween” by Sarah A

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I spend fifteen minutes standing by the headstone before I leave. It’s been nearly three months, but three months doesn’t bring me closure, doesn’t bring me closer to understanding, doesn’t solve my pain and frustration.   I can’t remember why I decided this morning I wanted to come here. Maybe it was all the Halloween decorations around town, all the fake skeletons, fake “RIP”? Maybe I just needed something a little bit more tangible to tackle my own grief.  Damian sits on the headstone next to me, his steel t...

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“Dancing on the Other Side” by Zethu Dlamini

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The streets were vibrant with carved pumpkins, skeletons, tombstones, spider webs, giant spiders, zombies and other Halloween delights - it was the day before Halloween and excitement brewed in the houses of the middle class neighborhood of Charleston. All except in the Turner family’s house;“You guys don’t go, don’t leave me,” sobbed Deloris Turner. It had been almost a year since anyone from her family had acknowledged her but it had been comforting to have them with her in the same house. Today, unfortunately, was the day she had been dre...

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“The Dumbwaiter” by Quinn Kimmett

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Going down.  That's all Ty had been doing. It seemed like hours.  He caught glimpses of other rooms. Once he thought he saw Ron.  He called out, but there was no hope. Even if he could have caught Ty at the velocity he was traveling, all that Ty would have done is drag him down with him.  How did this start? Because Ty was a jerk.  Ty and his friends Kapri and Ron got wind that Marissa, the snobby rich girl that everyone hated, was moving into the Egeus estate, a mansion just outside of town. Naturally the group...

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“I'm Not a Ghost for Halloween” by Jane DiGiovanni

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Blood drips from the jagged cut across my forehead over my black and blue eye. Bloody abrasions cover my cheek. I glance down at the multiple cuts and bruises covering my arms and legs. My beautiful dress is a thing of the past. It is now torn and covered in blood. I can't believe how good this costume turned out. "I should have been a make up artist instead of a boring accountant." At least this party won't be boring. I absolutely love Halloween costume parties and Annie has yet to have a boring one. Its cool its actually on Halloween th...

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“The Big Surprise ” by Charles Wasilausky

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"I am sorry, but I am afraid your father didn't survive the crash," Dr. Fleming said keeping his voice solemn. "What happened," Dave asked. He was planning on visiting his father over the weekend. Once he received the phone call from the hospital saying there was a car crash, and his dad was looking slim for survival, Dave rushed to the local hospital. Once he arrived, he learned that his dad was in critical condition and there was a chance he would pass away from his injuries during the night. Dr. Fleming came in six hours later with the ne...

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“MY FIRST HALLOWEEN AS A GHOST” by Mara Masolini

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+ MY FIRST HALLOWEEN as A GHOST When I arrive ____the party is taking place in a wide and almost dark underground room , which you have to go down an infinite number of steps to get there___I approach a table when a dozen guys, some in vampire dress, some in skeleton dress, some in devil dress, are drinking a yellow drink , in big pot-bellied glasses. “ It’s pumpkin juice at poisoned tooth! “ A vampire announces, cheerfully, in a shrill voice, lifting the big pot-bellied glass overhead. “ Would you like to tas...

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“The Vetal” by Kanika Sharma

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The Vetal It is said that Halloween night is indeed magical, attracting the souls from other realms into one of the mortal beings for that particular night. Throughout the world, spooky incidents are reported on the eve of the 31st of October every year. It was yet another chilly Halloween night in the relatively deserted town of Yorkshire, London and the big Banyan tree at the dead-end of the 5th block, looked especially eerie that day. The dense cloud of fog around the tree was causing the light of decorative pumpkin lanterns put on in it...

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“The Pearls of Madeline Baker” by Grace Carey

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She had bright red hair that reminded me of the embers from a flame. I disappeared from her life but she never disappeared from mine. Although my soul floats free from my body I still remain right next to her, watching as she opened her music box that was painted with pink adolescent designs of flowers and fairies and twisted a piece of jewelry gently around her fingers, gazing at the pearls like they were poisonous. Those were my pearls. I used to where those pearls nearly everyday. The girl with auburn hair was sitting right in front of me...

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“Night of Terror ” by Sabrina Matsumoto

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Screams of terror carried by the breeze that causes goosebumps, horrified faces that plaster every figure out in the dark night and do not forget the jack o'lanterns that light up the creaky porches. This is what one would call the night of October 31st. This is the night that the devil comes out to play and that little angel on your shoulder  just happens to disappear.  I brush past children dressed as vampires and princesses, their innocence radiating off them as they walk through the streets without a care in the world, and t...

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