Here's a thing I wrote in 15 minutes today. It's kinda dumb, but it made me chuckle and I read it to some other writers tonight and they seemed to like it. It was written to be read out loud really. Hope you like it.
I
DON’T BELIEVE IN GHOSTS
“I
don’t believe in ghosts,” I said, ignoring the translucent grey
man hanging around at the end of my road.
“I
still don’t believe in ghosts,” I said, when I woke up the next
day and found an old lady silently howling at the end of my bed.
“I
don’t believe in ghosts,” I angrily muttered, flipping the bird
at the drowned child crying in my bathroom. “Sod off.”
“No,
really, I don’t
believe in ghosts,” I stressed at work, when a cavalcade of
headless horsemen galloped through the office and floated through the
wall by the photocopier. That was a weird one.
“FOR
FUCK’S SAKE,” I swore that evening, as a raven-haired Korean girl levitated through my living room. “I don’t
believe in ghosts!” She glowered at me and disappeared into the TV.
“I
don’t believe in ghosts,” I said tiredly as I surveyed my ruined
flat while chairs flew around of their own accord.
“I
DO
believe I should have kept taking those anti-psychotics,” I said to
the doctor the next morning. “I think I’m having a few problems…”
Will
Salmon 2013
