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Friday, February 13, 2015

Today's #flashfiction Ghostly Dreams


“I can't be in two places at once.”
Agent Smith, The Matrix* #quote



          Regarding hashtag placement I've decided to re-hash the hashtaggin' of the word flashfiction in the blog title but remove the hashtag from the title of my story. I originally put that there because I thought maybe someone might use it as a way to search for old stories by title...but I upon reflection I don't think people will use it. Anyway onto the flash fiction!


Ghostly Dreams

         The ghost's moans through the old homes, castles or whatever place they haunt are not moans at all. The human ear doesn't quite know the sound of a ghost's snore. Human's also don't know what dreams the spirits have.
         Humans may have wondrous, strange images or circumstances in their dreams. Flying among the clouds. But a ghost like the Fredrick in the old manor atop the hill dream of something quite different. The afterlife is a place of such strangeness, so when the ghosts haunt they come back down to the living world to sleep and remember. Remember the simplest of the world. While dead, normal becomes strange, and they happy to revisit the mundane reality of the living.
          Fredrick sleeps in the manor and dreams all the memories he obtained in life both in the manor and out. The bright, sunny days and smiling faces of other people are old wonders he meets again with joy. The memory of walking to the store with his wife and children while the smells spring move through the air floods his ghostly dreams. He misses these dreams when he wakes up back to the world of the afterlife, even though in that world it is possible to fly in the clouds.

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