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Write a ghost story where there’s more going on than it first appears.

Posted in Mystery on Jul 27, 2021

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“Kindred Spirits ” by Jaya Avendel

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He does little things to amuse himself. Knitting, sewing, even yoga. He does these things to amuse himself but mostly he does them because he is lonely. There is a picture on his bedside table of an apple tree. It is burdened with red fruit yet holds itself up proudly with a straight trunk. The date on the photo is written on it in permanent marker. 5.10.15 The day he lost her. Mr. Martin Ginsburg lives alone. He does not go to the orchard anymore. His sister, Vanessa, wants him to “face his demons”. She is a therapist, programmed to...

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“The more you look, the less you see” by Alero Afinotan

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Prologue He woke up to hear knocking on glass. At first, he thought it was the window until he heard it come from the mirror again... ~~~~~ "Calm down! It's not the end of the world. You'll just have to get used to this place. You can make new friends here, Liam." His mom snapped. Fourteen-year-old Liam looked around hating the fact that this place, Hemmingtown, was his new home. He sat back in his seat and crossed his arms. He missed his home back in Lowisworth, that's where all of his friends were. Two months ago his parents talked a...

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“Mabel” by Estelle Westley

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First days can be so unnerving, especially your first day at high school and your first day at boarding school.Lucy was very excited to be at such a prestigious school. She was looking forward to making new friends. This was a whole new chapter of her life unfolding.The assembly hall was a hive of chatter and laughter. Old students were reuniting with hugs after the holidays and new students were trying to fit in. The house mother, Mrs Murray, took to the stage and a silence ascended on the girls. The girls had the utmost respect for Mr...

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“Keep out your dead” by Conor Thackray

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Since the undertaker was now pushing up roses in his own garden, it fell to me to go lock up the gates and circle the grounds with the rectory candle lantern in my father’s large winter cassock. The Graveyard was closed, to the living and the dead and the church hadn’t conducted a proper burial now for over a month. My father was concerned that rising anxiety among locals, since the plague had arrived in our village, might drive them to desperate acts against the grounds or the church. Apparently, as his heir, it was my duty to take care of ...

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“The Ghost Who Couldn't Frighten People” by Barbara Burgess

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Jan sat on her bed snuggled up with her duvet wrapped around her and her book, Dracula, opened at Chapter 1. She began to shiver, even though she felt warm. She took her cup of hot chocolate from the bedside table and began to sip it as she read. She tried to convince herself that she wasn’t in the least bit afraid even though the hairs on her arms were standing on end and she hadn’t even got to the bottom of the first page! Before she could continue reading, she thought she heard a creaking noise coming from the corner of the bedroom. Don’t...

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“Haunted With Love” by Marcia H.

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“Did you hear that?” Bella asked her best friend and cousin, Ethel. “What?” I didn’t hear anything. Ethel said, wiping the sleep out of her eyes. “You can’t tell me that you didn’t hear that loud noise. It sounded like a big bang. Like someone was banging on the door.”  “Bella, I honestly didn’t hear anything. I think that you are just creeped out because we are here.” Ethel responded The house on 1620 Josephina Avenue. Now sat empty with the exception of the girls being there now. It was once a home filled with love, laughter, ...

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“Punxsutawney Ghost” by Mariah Danielle

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Punxsutawney Ghost                One October night when the clouds were laying on the town roads, everything silent, no noise to be heard. Not even a mouse, nothing but fog ran through the streets. When the sun goes down the shadows in the town, anything, and everything in the dark roams freely. No one is safe , and no one can see them…. Just beware not to look at the shadows they create.              &...

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“Don't Ghost Your Friends” by Jeni Conrad

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I have always loved ghosts. Most people are afraid of them, worried that they’ll make things float or let out a big scream, or something--I don’t know. Maybe some people are just afraid that they’ll confirm that life is just a little different than they want to believe. Ghosts are glimpses into the past and show us stories we couldn’t know otherwise. Sure, there are some evil ones out there, but like the people they were before they became ghosts, they usually fall somewhere in the middle, between angelic and devilish. I’ve been able to...

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“Ghosts and Pigeons.” by Jack Bennett

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The old rambler swerved from side to side, kicking up yellow dust and stones. Ray had the unnerving habit of looking at the passenger while driving. We have driven into more than one wheat field on our adventures on the wide open bald ass Alberta prairie. So far, he has always managed to get us back on the road without missing a sentence or flipping the vehicle. last winter while we froze our prairie oysters trying to hunt the elusive and cunning antelope, mostly, we were content to take a few fat partridge home; we discovered a farm house...

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“Emily” by Helen Ross

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Everyone knew the Connors' house was haunted. It was common knowledge in the neighbourhood. When they moved in, it was a spectacle - finally fitting electric lights, painting the outside, fitting double-glazed glass, and installing a telephone wire. Most houses on their street didn't even have a wire yet, the Connors were almost modern. Frankly, it seemed unnatural to have a family in that old building; it had been empty for decades, a cornerstone of the neighbourhood.  There were only two in the family. A tight-knit pair, Emily was h...

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“Haunter and Haunted” by R Kon

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My house is being haunted. I’ve lived here for as long as I can remember and it’s never happened before, but it started a few weeks ago- just little things, half-glimpsed figures in the hall who disappeared after a few minutes. I go downstairs now and they’re there again- more of them this time. The first time it was two, then just one, then the same one with others, many others, always different, always coming through my house and staring straight at me- They scare me. Worse than that, I can’t get away from them. The first few tim...

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“The ghost who wanted a home ” by Nicole Jalonen

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The Ghost Who wanted a home Nicole jalonen  in honour of black lives mattering A woman dressed in white with blonde hair ran down a dirt path carrying a crying infant girl in one hand and a lantern in the other. She was a African American women who had to obey a white family who were very wealthy. Not only did she race through the foggy stormy night with her crying infant but she carried with her scars from whips and a dark secret she knew she would be beaten for if her mistress caught her. She could hear her pursuers right beh...

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“Dark Era - The beginning” by SIMON Prathap

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John walked down the room and removed his shirt off, got into his bath robe and entered the shower room. He turned on the shower and the cold water touched his already cold skin, he got goose bumps. In order to save himself from the cold, he turns on the hot shower line. The water was warm initially, then it got hot, his face showed how he felt uncomfortable, when he felt it was too hot, he tried to turn off the shower, but then he couldn't move. His hand froze, his body stood like a statue, and the hot water got hotter, then hotter, made hi...

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“Egyptian Goddess” by Cathryn V

Submitted to Contest #64

The white bones appeared under dark loamy earth, beautiful as carved ivory. Inside me a pressure built, bubbling up, coming out as a chortle at first, then a laugh. I lost control, my eyelids tightened down, and the sound burst forth a hysterical, maniacal howl. I held my arms around myself and laughed until no sound came. ****I knew I had to stay with Daddy after Mama passed away. You’d have thought she was his be-all and end-all, the way he went off the deep end, drinking a half case of beer instead of the normal six pack, s...

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“No Room For Macabre” by Sucheta Halder

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I was sitting on the broken wooden chair. The room was dimly lit. Outside the sun has set and darkness was creeping in like the thick velvet curtains of theatres. I was used to it- the lack of light used to bother me too much, but now it’s just normal. It embraces me, just as how I am and that feeling is comforting. It has been around half an hour since mother left. She made me dress up in a new stiff and crisp black suit and went inside the kitchen. Mother likes to buy suits for me, and every time she buys a new suit she tells me to wear it...

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