The Knight in Shining Skull T-shirt ([info]gillan) wrote,
@ 2008-03-04 10:50:00
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Hauntings
So it turns out that you don't have to be dead to be a ghost.

"Oooooh," he said. He rattled some chains. "Oooooh."

"It's four in the morning. I just woke up from a really unpleasant dream. About you. Could you just... not?" Abigail covered her head with a pillow.

"Remember that time it was cold and the battery to my car died so we cuddled in the passenger seat and wrote things in the frost on the windows while we waited for your dad to come give us a jump? Ooooooooh." He waved two sheet-covered arms around.

"Yes. Yes, I fucking remember. It was nice. And then dad took us out to get hot cocoa and when he went to the bathroom you put your hand on my leg and kissed me real quick. You acted all innocent when he came back and it was adorable."

"Oooooh! And how about how I'd play with your hair until you fell asleep when you were scared. Oooooh!"

"I want to sleep. I don't want to remember you! I don't want to remember the nice things that I can't have anymore!" She threw a teddy bear. It passed right through him.

"Oooooh! I know. Just imagine who I'm sleeping next to right now that's not you. Oooooh!"

"I'm calling an exorcist. No, I'm calling Ghostbusters. Actually, no, I'm sleeping with the first guy who comes along and I'm making you watch." It's hard to gauge emotion through a sheet with two holes cut out for eyes, but it looked like that worked. There was a long silence.

"It won't keep me away forever. Only time will do that. Ooh." He finally said.

"I know." He said nothing while she hugged her pillow and cried.


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[info]lollerk8
2008-03-04 04:19 pm UTC (link)
ok, that's it: srsly having your babies.

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[info]gillan
2008-03-04 04:22 pm UTC (link)
I'm excited about this idea.

Remember: if it's a boy we're naming him Bladin'.

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[info]lollerk8
2008-03-04 04:25 pm UTC (link)
So long as we can give him a decent middle name should he ever want to, oh, I don't know, get a real job.

Look honey, we're already fighting.

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[info]gillan
2008-03-04 04:34 pm UTC (link)
Haha, you're great. :)

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[info]ubergeek2012
2008-03-04 05:33 pm UTC (link)
I think the only valid middle name to follow "Bladin'" is "fury".

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[info]bar_sinister
2008-03-04 04:27 pm UTC (link)
This is awesome.

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[info]gillan
2008-03-04 04:29 pm UTC (link)
Thanks dude.

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[info]bar_sinister
2008-03-04 04:45 pm UTC (link)
So what is this form of fiction called? A vignette? I don't even know. It's not really a poem, although it shares a lot with a poem in it's succinctness. I'm asking because I really enjoy these (I have another friend who writes little snippets like this), and they can be really clever and affecting like poetry can be.

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[info]gillan
2008-03-04 04:46 pm UTC (link)
I've heard them called "microfiction," "flash fiction," and "nanofiction."

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[info]twenty6colors
2008-03-04 06:42 pm UTC (link)
i like this one. it makes me sad because i keep having ghost dreams (though not about relationships and white sheets... much creepier) and i suspect they're my ghosts and not horror movie dream ghosts (which are completely different albeit on the same creepiness level) and i woke up wondering when they would stop "haunting" me. oi. this makes it a bit lighter :)

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[info]gillan
2008-03-05 01:38 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, I think everyone has this problem sometimes.

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