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Write about someone’s first Halloween as a ghost.

Posted in Halloween on Nov 1, 2022

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“Unrequited ” by Emma Rose

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There are 3 things you should know about me. My name is Leo. I like words. And I am dead. You’re probably wondering how exactly I died, but at this point it’s pretty irrelevant.  Irrelevant.  I like that word. Only one thing is relevant now, and that thing is named Emily. - She was crying again.  Third night in a row since she’d moved in. Not just dainty little sniffles and sighs as she silently watered her pillow.  No, this was full out ugly crying with sobs that shook the whole bed,...

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“Cempasúchil” by Sam W

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Cempasúchil have a particular smell; and it isn’t until you’re dead that you can appreciate how different it is from absolutely everything else. That’s what they say, anyway. I myself spent an absurdly short time in the lower world, so I wouldn’t know what cempasúchil smell like for the living. But to me, they smell like adventure. From far off they look like cotton bolls, perfectly round and full. But instead of cotton they’re packed tight with tiny orange petals, and the green stalks and leaves seem too skinny to hold the bright, round flo...

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“No Girls Allowed ” by Lucy St. Louis

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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a ghost? To merely be a shadow in the presence of someone you once where? To look back and wonder “why did that happen” or “how did that happen?” Trust me when I say that I ask myself these questions every day. I think about the day I died. I think about why the driver had to have run the light. Why the person drove on and didn’t worry. Why I didn’t even live through enough time to hear the sirens of the ambulance.  I sat down on the top of the doorway of my room. I kicked my feet fr...

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“Secrets on my Street” by Dizney Holsinger

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It was my first year dressing up as a ghost. I was so excited. I've been wanting to dress up as one for years. Now I finally get to. I've noticed something strange lurking in my neighborhood though. It's the same thing every year. I just don't know what. I finally get to go trick or treating and my first Halloween party. Since my party runs late and starts at night fall, I'm going trick or treating early this year.After I started trick or treating, something happened that will change my life forever. After my first few houses, a car had...

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“ Honor of the Ghost” by Cassandrea Geesling

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Trigger warning: mention of suicide, death, and cutting. I'm a lonely ghost. No one will play music with me, honor me by all my hard work, remember me, and worse of all, no one cared about me. You see, I was an outsider. I mean who would care about an outsider. An outsider that even the outsiders at my high school would let me in their groups. Back when I was alive, everyone would make fun of me. Call me names. Saying how bad and lame my life is. And how I should die by hanging myself or slice my neck. Just like how I would slice my w...

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“I died a day before Halloween.” by Looking For Inspiration

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What do you do when you die a day before Halloween? I found myself asking this when I woke up separated from my body in the morgue, looking around me I sighed just thinking well great I am dead. But why am I here? shrugging I look down at my body saying, “Well good luck with all the hype around funerals, me.” I giggle at myself; I have always been a jokester and I believe I have fulfilled my life with as much happiness as I could. So, all I can think now is what do I do now? remembering it is the day before Halloween I giggle before walking ...

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“The Salesman ” by Matt Render

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“I’ve told you a hundred times, Justin... Quit making me out to be the bad guy” “But, I said I was sorry. I don’t know what else to do at this point” Justin said, squeezing his temple, as though to mitigate the pounding of his recurring stress headaches.   “Look, you know I love you, but, yeah... at this point I don’t know, like, what to do...” Laura looked down at the newly purchased silver bracelet with the aqua marine Aquarius charm Justin had wrapped around her wrist.  He didn’t want to mention how he had sacrific...

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“Ghost Photoshoot Origin” by Laura Aguirre

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I never really liked Halloween, to be honest. It’s not because of how scary or dangerous it could get. It’s about the lonesome feeling I would get, seeing everyone in my neighborhood be busy with their decorations, going out to be with friends, and with their trick-or-treating every year. My family didn’t really bond over those things, both my parents were busy around that time of year and as an only child… well there’s only so much I could do to keep myself entertained. However, that completely changed for the better in high school. I was a...

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“A Ghostly Halloween” by Monica Chaddick

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I am so nervous and excited today. Today is Halloween. For a lot of people, that is neither nerve – racking nor exciting, but those people didn’t just die a few months ago and are not experiencing their first Halloween as a ghost. I am not dressing up as a ghost. I am a real ghost.           I know, I know. You were told ghosts aren’t real and all that malarkey. I didn’t think ghosts were real either, until I died and became one. Let me tell you, it took s...

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“Haunt” by Roqualind McCortney

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“Imagine, for a moment, that everything drifts away in a single second. Every feeling is rushing through you. Pain. You feel pain. But not the pain you’ve felt before, but a mental pain. A pain that makes it feel as if a dagger has made a strong gash through your feelings. Disgust. But not disgust at yourself, but at the same time, only at yourself. That your body hasn’t been through enough, but still too much. Hate, but not self hate, or hate at others, but hate at Atropis. For she guaranteed you’d die. You, someone who needs to do so much....

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“Night Visiting ” by Mairéad Ní Shúilleabháin

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The air is different. Fresher, cooler, purer. The air feels like something is happening. There is another feeling. They are close. The ones I lost. I walk through a field. Already dew is forming on the blades of grass. The moon is full. How apt. I can see my way clearly. A fox watches me from the corner. He is well hidden. He knows that I know he is there. I reach the ditch and climb over it. I am on a road. I know this road. I turn right and follow the twists and turns. In the distance I can hear fireworks and dogs howling. Lights c...

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“I'm gone” by Flyx H

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I watch my feet as I walk, pushing my hands into my pockets and letting the breeze mess my hair. The moon sits above me as kids in costumes run past me... through me. They knock on doors and yell "Trick or Trick!" The smiles on their faces force a frown on mine. That use to be me. Last year that was me. I was only ten years old and collecting candy from strangers, the one thing my parents always told me not to do, but there was this one night a year were they encouraged it. I laugh at that thought. My smile soon fades, knowing I'll never ...

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“With You” by Eva Bernal

Submitted to Contest #65

I wish you could see me this year. I look amazing. I must have checked myself in this mirror half a dozen times already. I can’t believe it. My skin is just the perfect shade of pale. I am, however, left with the harder decision of which party I am attending. On one hand, the jocks are throwing a killer kegger at Dylan’s, but Sam’s party are always a wild rave-like ride. And let’s be honest, Sam is hot. Like H-O-T, leave your boyfriend hot. Speaking of which, it’s odd I haven’t seen Max in days. I...

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“When I Wore a Younger Mans Clothes” by Jason Dean

Submitted to Contest #65

He played her piano every day. The shape of his heart would determine whether it was for a few minutes or a whole afternoon as grief sat beside him on her stool and there were days even now, six months later, when he could not bear the weight.She was here, he was sure.She had played every single day, hours and hours of practise. Not to entertain or to impress but for the sheer joy, the feeling of interpreting musical notation from more than a century ago and hearing same the notes that Mozart himself had heard. She felt them, speaking to her...

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“Our Sickness” by Michelle Vongkaysone

Submitted to Contest #65

It shouldn't have happened to me. I never expected to perish so suddenly. I don't think anyone does, but it still stings. I was in good enough health. I thought I could get past anything that I got. But that's the thing about this sickness. It sneaks up and hits you. I didn't think I had it. I thought it was something else at first. Before I could worry too much, it hit me. I was completely wiped out. I couldn't think straight or even breathe right. It felt like my life was draining away. I went to the hospital, but it was too late. I di...

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