************************************************* Copyright Oggbashan August 2019 The author asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work. This is a work of fiction. The events described here are imaginary; the settings and characters are fictitious and are not intended to represent specific places or living persons. *************...
All characters in this story are over the age of 18-years-old. There are no underage characters. This is a Halloween contest story. Please vote. * Ghosts come out to play on Halloween "Well, here we are," said John, the Mayor's assistant, pulling up to the house. A typical politician, he was a gray-haired, portly man in his late fifties with darting eye...
A waif-like vision materialized out of the darkness. Her brief gossamer dress would not usually have been considered appropriate burial attire; it left little to the imagination. It may have been fine for partying with Paris Hilton or Britney Spears, but not for a formal funeral, at least not here in the south. "She's here!" I exclaimed, waking my wife. "...
Having breakfast with a rival assassin turned out to be much more cordial than I would have expected. In fact, I'd even describe it as pleasant. Not a single bullet fired, not a single drop of blood shed. I have a theory for this-- bacon brings people together. Even people who are paid to kill other people. We made quite the pair, two contract killers shar...
"It's clearly just a smudge on the camera. Look, the light from this street lamp is reflecting off it when you point the camera over there." Ellie angled photo in her hand to reveal the illusion. Her friend Sarah, however, was adamant. "It's totally a ghost!" Ever since she'd inherited the cabin out in the woods from some distant uncle, she was completely c...
"You're that surprised?" "Not really," grumbled Ghost, "I never trusted you from the start." Detective Robert Trent bent down, the silencer equipped gun pointing at his 'partner in crime fighting', and grabbed the case of money lying beside the invisible hero. Ghost was ready to make a move towards his belt to grab a weapon he could use, but Trent raised...
Unconscious Camilla was now reliving a memory from a year before the aquarium incident. She was thirty-six at the time, and wearing a tight-fitting dress, high heels, and heavy makeup. She was at home, sitting on the sofa in the living room one December afternoon after having just finished teaching at McGill University. She'd heard some unpleasant news earli...
This is a Valentine's Day contest story. Please vote. * A man is stalked by a ghost, albeit a beautiful ghost, his dream woman. Did you ever feel you're being watched and that someone is following you, stalking you? Feeling so disconcerted that you turn around and every time you do, there's no one there and you're alone with your bad self and your paranoi...
Part Three, Cricket Samuel woke on the foot of his bed and rubbed the weariness from his eyes. He hadn't even realized that he had fallen asleep. Standing up and looking down at his nude body, he began to recap on the events of the day prior. Had it all been real? He threw on clean clothes, stepped out of his room and began calling out for Lucas. He hope...
Ariana lying lackadaisically noted with sheer boredom it was raining. No chance to walk in the park to work. She would have to take the shuttle. She was told to take time off. Paul hadn't been gone for long. Their last conversation before he faded from her forever. She had no time to play the grieving, loving sister. "Ariana this is the truth don't take tim...