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Ghost

September 28, 2021 9 Comments

By Rose Woods

If I’m the ghost—always observant, never seen, drifting in corners and along walls while everyone looks through me like glass—then how did your eyes catch on mine the moment I walked through the door? You, the focal point of the party—the center of everyone’s attention.

Yet it was me you chose to stand beside. Me you leaned close to hear amid the clamor. Me who walked you to your car before you drove away for good.

If I am the ghost, why is it you who haunts my dreams and hovers in the corners of my wakeful thoughts?

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Comments

  1. Beebles says

    September 28, 2021 at 8:08 am

    Superb. Thoroughly enjoyed the use of language to produce that other worldly feel.

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  2. Rosemarie Schaut says

    September 28, 2021 at 9:00 am

    I enjoyed this so much.

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  3. Helen C says

    September 28, 2021 at 9:17 am

    Great piece of flash!

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  4. Derek says

    September 28, 2021 at 11:20 am

    I like the concept of the story and the way it is told. The last sentence is excellent.

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  5. Our Mick says

    September 28, 2021 at 1:34 pm

    Clever and thought provoking… love it!

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  6. Su Newman says

    September 29, 2021 at 11:21 am

    Loved it!

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  7. Jim says

    September 29, 2021 at 1:42 pm

    Very nice. Maybe my favorite ghost story yet.

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  8. dlherrmann says

    September 29, 2021 at 3:34 pm

    “why is it you who haunts” I really like that twist!!

    Reply
  9. Kelly Louisa Balliu says

    October 1, 2021 at 9:30 am

    Fab final paragraph 🙂

    Reply

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