Tuesday, 6 February 2018

I died

I used to conjure up the darkness. I used to be quite good at it. These days I prefer the light.

At one point about 40 years ago, I saw an invisible boundary on a road late at at night, and knew that if even one foot went over it, there would be no return.

So don't try and scare me with your ghost stories. I love them. I miss them.
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17 comments:

  1. John Going Gently6 February 2018 at 13:19

    I adore a good ghost story.
    I have many tucked away for children to be scared by ( and enjoy) one day!

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    1. Tom Stephenson6 February 2018 at 13:28

      I really do love them. I really do miss them.

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    2. John Going Gently6 February 2018 at 13:39

      I'll post one tomorrow

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    3. Tom Stephenson6 February 2018 at 13:51

      Lovely. We need this stuff. There is nothing finer than to sit in a warm and cosy cottage with cold and foul weather outside, listening to a bone fide ghost story. Dickens knew that.

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    4. Rachel Phillips6 February 2018 at 14:02

      ...oooooooOo

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    5. John Going Gently6 February 2018 at 14:21

      Ok rachel , me you and tom will each write a ghost story tomorrow

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    6. Rachel Phillips6 February 2018 at 14:28

      I only do sound effects.

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    7. Tom Stephenson7 February 2018 at 02:14

      I only do visual effects.

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  2. Joanne Noragon6 February 2018 at 15:33

    Just sometimes I get caught up in a good ghost story. It must be well told. Or, I could be persuaded, just to get in from the cold.

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  3. Donna OShaughnessy6 February 2018 at 18:08

    In the 60's my father, an artist-cop-mechanic would gather us kids around a pile of burning leaves at the end of the driveway. Neighborhood kids would join and he would tell the story of Ichabod Crane. No one, and I mean no one, could tell it like my da.

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    1. Tom Stephenson7 February 2018 at 02:16

      He must have multi-talented to be artist, cop, mechanic AND story teller.

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  4. Jacqueline @ HOME7 February 2018 at 01:34

    I used to love a bit of horror ..... was always going to see those rubbish X films !!! But, since horror films have become so scary, i’m not quite so keen ...... but, a clever ghost story is good. XXXX

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    1. Tom Stephenson7 February 2018 at 02:18

      I loved the chintzy Hammer films, but these days Hollywood has turned 'horror' into violence of the kind that happens all the time in real life. Who needs that?

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  5. Cro Magnon7 February 2018 at 02:44

    Both Lady M and myself keep seeing an elderly lady here, but seeing as I don't believe in ghosts, it can't be one.

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    1. Tom Stephenson7 February 2018 at 10:53

      As I was climbing up the stair,
      I met a man who wasn't there.
      He wasn't there again today.
      I wish that man would go away.

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  6. Jenny Woolf7 February 2018 at 15:53

    The traditional ghost stories are the best.

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