Midweek (Micro) Release: Haunting

Explorative micro-fiction in which size doesn't matter — it's how you word it (in 250 or less).

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Two spectral beings made up of energy and unfinished business float in a cozy office.

From their place hovering above an armchair, one of the apparitions speaks in a soft, far off tone.

"How was your week?"

With an unsettling chill of demise, the phantom above the leather sofa sighs. "I started haunting someone new. A single woman in her early 30's."

"Go on."

"First night, I definitely made myself known. She looked pretty scared to me."

"Mmhmm."

"I go back the next night — she's got a Ouija board and candles everywhere. She's naked in bed, touching herself, legs spread, begging me to make contact."

The ghostly therapist bends the atmosphere in the room around themself. “You're haunting a freak."

A sound like nails on a chalkboard escapes the spirit on the couch. "She asked me if I had a huge ‘schlong’ or if I had ‘mommy milkers’ in my past life, but then she said it doesn't matter because she's bisexual."

"I see."

"She asked me to" — the poltergeist bursts into black flames — "to 'fill her to the brim with my throbbing holy spirit.'"

Tension builds before the therapist asks carefully, "And?"

Dread fills the air as blood rains down the walls and crawls toward the black flames rising from the couch. A deep voice booms throughout the liminal space of death:

"I liked it."

The vision of the therapist pulses, annoyance coating its hollow squall, "This is going to set us back months."

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