Category: Creative Writing
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In the Moonlight
A Short Story – Written by Alice (for Halloween!) In the daylight, she smiles and laughs, a tinkling sound trickling slowly through the air, humming and singing, whimsical melodies floating across the street. Passersby crinkle their eyes, grin at her sweet antics, wish her well. Unsuspecting, unaware, unwitting. In the moonlight, she smiles and laughs,…
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Twice a Day
The ghost hovers at the top of the stairs. Usually, it waits behind closed doors. It tumbles around the buzzing lights like a moth, wings of checkered red and blue beating at the hot glass. I notice that the lamps are always louder at night, when a cold black blanket gets thrown over the sky,…