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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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“Dimensions” by Jocelyn Reekie

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Dimensions The traffic on the six-lane highway rumbles past. Cars, buses, eighteen wheelers pulling pups, silver recreation vehicles, and motorcycles. The cacophony of noise assaults his ears until he blocks it, creates a white-noise cocoon—a silence of sorts. Not unlike the silence of the crowd he’d stood with half a world away, before the shock wore off and the screaming started.            This road is so familiar. He’s driven it hundreds of times. Here, it’s flat and straight. The b...

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“A Row House (Horror story of a haunted house)” by Chandrika Menon

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Srikumaran, a business man was on his way to the city of Ooty along with his family. He was glad & excited to re-locate to their new Row House, which he purchased some few years back under loan. After many years of tremendous pressure & hardwork he repaid all his loans & owned this row house, as desired by his wife Sumitra. Radhika, their only daughter, who got married last year to Sanjaya, an engineer, now settled at Sydney. She could not join them, due to Sanjaya’s busy work schedule. Even though they missed their daughter Radh...

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“In the House” by Jackie Harvey

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‘It’s evil. I can feel it. Feel it in every stone - evil it is.’ ‘What rubbish. A house, or any other building, cannot be evil. Men who transgress the laws of our good Lord are evil. Whether any such men, or indeed women, have ever resided in this house we shall not know but if so their wickedness cannot seep into its structure. You are a foolish child to believe it could be so.’ Mother I turn away from my sullen daughter. Why she thinks such things I cannot imagine. She scowls at me. In a fit of temper she wrests the cap from her hea...

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“The Haunting of Birchwood Manor” by Lily Green

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Hi people! This is my first story! Most of you might know me from all poetry. Enjoy. The Haunting of Birchwood Manor  By Lily Green “What do you want from me?” Ainsley White had always tried to ignore them. But she wasn’t sure she could anymore.  “Play?” “No,” she said shakily. “No play.” She got to her feet and stared at herself in the mirror, willing away the angry ghost. She described herself as she often did in her head, none of the words changing since she first imagined herself in someone else’s eyes. She was a shor...

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“Grave Danger” by Michael Hayes

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The clock struck eleven, on the church overlooking the dark graveyard. The only other sound to breach the silence was the occasional breeze through the surrounding trees. The clear sky was dominated by the looming full moon which cast eerie shadows of the disheveled old graves that dominated the cemetery. “What’s that?” I heard some rustling, like footsteps nearby. “Relax, don’t be so on edge”, assured Louise, “as her hands held my face. “Less talk,more kissing,” she whispered as her lips met mine. ‘Crack’, I heard another sound, as though s...

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“Thomas and the Oddity” by Chris Buono

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Thomas felt all the blood in his body rush to his legs. The world went blurry there for a second until he was able to catch his breath again.        “Is- is that what I think it is?” he asked with a dry tongue.        Thomas jumped when Margret replied to him, “Yeah, that looks like the ghost of Elizabeth Thomas. Murdered in her bedroom forty-seven years ago on Halloween night.”        Thomas regained composure once again and averted his ...

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“Staying in the Lines” by Louise Muller

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Screams filled the air as the children chased each other on the grass. A small boy climbed on the jungle gym and screamed to the others proudly,” Look at me! Look what I can do! Follow me!” The others stared in amazement and they cheered him on loudly but none were so brave to follow his path. Little girls braided each other’s hair, and big sisters cuddled the smaller ones. The boys fought and threw punches trying to show off their manliness. This was the scene that played itself out in front of Ludwig every day. Despite being a child himsel...

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“Take Care of Momma” by Autumn Williams

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Take Care of Momma  By: Autumn Williams  Momma’s been sad since Daddy left. She doesn’t move from the couch anymore. I guess it’d be too painful for her to go upstairs to bed…to their bed. Her and Daddy have shared that bed for as long as I can remember, longer actually. No. I don’t blame Momma. I wouldn’t want to lie up there either. I wish I knew what to say to make her feel better. Poor Momma.  Now, personally, I’m not really sad about Daddy. For whatever reason, I feel like he’s not too far ...

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“The Missing Family” by AJ Paturde

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"Don't be scared you dumbass!!" Andy shouted at me. I, as always decided to ignore him. "Hey look that loser is moving around." Some girls muffled and then laughed. "Can't you just die?" A boy threw a pen at me it hit my head. I have become a daily topic for everyone to pick on me and bully me. *Sigh* can't be helped. It was my fault at last. . ----- 1 week before ------ . "Pick up that bag Liam!" My dad screamed at me. that made my boy jump in horror. The Nintendo that was in my hand was just about to fall off because of my dad panicking m...

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“Children of Light” by Aaliyah Kamal

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Children of Light The house stretched on for as far as Lorraine’s little steps could carry her, standing proud in its majesty which was so apparent that the rusting pipes and the weed curling up on the walls went unnoticed; only adding to the splendor of the house. When the house ended, the garden rolled on reaching up to the forest at the back. Lorraine was perched on one of the low hanging branches of a tree so huge, it seemed to coil up past the clouds. The sun had begun to dip behind the trees as though it was running from the inevita...

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“Jack & Jill & Josiah Jenkins” by Vanessa Kilmer

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“I double-dog-dare you,” said Jill, her unruly bangs covered her right eye and the port-wine birthmark on her cheek. She pushed Jack in the back. “Or are you chicken?” She began a bwok bwok noise but choked on it when a faint light lit up in the tower of the old farmhouse. It moved away from the broken window glass, disappeared for a held breath, and reappeared in the round windows dotting down the side of the clapboard walls, from the fourth flour turret to the ground floor. It stopped behind the front door side window, blinked three times,...

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“GHOST VARIATIONS: A high-end art thief attempts to steal a coveted 18th-century violin but an unlikely visitor intervenes” by DC Writer

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OF ALL THE SCHEMES that Toussaint LeFleur had dreamed up in prison, the one he wanted to execute the most was to take the 1715 Stradivarius violin and hold it for ransom. He knew the famous fiddle had found a new home in the city that awaited him upon release. All he had to do was snatch it from the hands of its unsuspecting owner, Victor Voltaire, a world-renowned violinist known to carry the coveted cultural relic between his home and his concert performances alone. Toussaint had done his homework. He kept a black folder filled with co...

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“A small shadow lives at Ferenmoor” by H.L Whitlock

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A small shadow lives at Ferenmoor “There was so much I wanted to do.” Images of her modest wedding to a young man who was set to inherit a small amount of land and property swam in front of her eyes, along with the simple yet elegant gown with the pearl-like beading running along the length of the gown from the bodice, pooling at its hem. The proud face of her parents, beaming at her. Her father’s approval. Her mother’s tears carefully dabbed away from the corners of her eyes with a silk hankie. The children she would have birthed glad...

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“Annihilation” by A P

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Boom! Another bomb sets off. I run to the kitchen and look out the dirty window. House D28. I go to the calendar and mark off a day. Today is the five week mark until my house explodes. I'm not the most excited. I look out the window again and see a horrible gray sky, smoke so thick you can't even see all the houses. What has this world become? The government won't tell us a single thing. All we know is that they're trying to cut down the population, and if you don't find the bomb in your house in time it explodes. One house everyday. 35 day...

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“THE DEADLY REVENGE. ” by Swetha Saravanan

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It was an usual summer morning in the city of Mumbai. The whole team of special task force were surprisingly relaxing without a single case. Little did they know their Chief Krunal is going to roast them once more with a case. All the four except their Chief where chit chatting in the conference room.  Abhi(techno savvy) : In which direction did the sun rise today?  Karthik(commando): Abhi, ask this to your brother. By the way you talk as though krunal sir resigned  Abhi: today our helpline has taken some rest. We got no ...

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