(Continues from Scent of Trouble)
My brain flashed back to the dagger and the dread coiling in my guts sinking me to the rocking floor. It was the only object I could interact with in a physical manner. And I’d chased the creeps looking for it. Could it destroy me?
My cell dropped interrupting my thoughts. Slamming into the ground, it rolled. I bounced around until remembered I was a ghost. I could float, so I did. No harm done though. Cracks tracked up the walls.
Hello daylight my old friend,
I’ve come to talk to you again.
I looked through a crack at the end,
stared at a pile of silent shells.
Matte black to absorb the sound,
with shiny insides to confound.
On them my unlife did depend,
and fates forfend that a friend–
should happen by at the end.
Silence cups my cell,
broken by the knell,
and the crackling of a spell.
Before I could seep through the crack, laughter crawled in and my illusory skin tried to crawl up my backbone. Something foul reached in but I dodged its clawed hand. Steel-tipped fingers gripped a chunk of concrete and ripped it out. Chanting mixed with the shrieks of seagulls and the distant chiming of slot machines. I breathed in the salt air and shook my head. I’d been abducted and dropped on the shores of Atlantic City. What a place to end my unlife.
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Very good. Excited to see how it all ends tomorrow. I like your play on the Sound of Silence, smart and great job writing the opposite of those initial lyrics.
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Thank you! The song just started playing in my head after I wrote the line ‘hello daylight.’ 🙂
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Atlantic City? Was not expecting that. He’s getting around, isn’t he LOL!
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well when I was kid, Atlantic city seemed an awful lot like hell. One I couldn’t escape because we couldn’t get my dad out of the casino and he had the car keys. Not a fun family adventure. So that has colored my perceptions of hell. I imagine it looking like Showboat resort and casino. 🙂
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I’ve been to Atlantic City. I had fun when I went there but it’s not exactly an ideal vacation or a place I’m raring to return to LOL.
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I’ll bet you weren’t ten at the time 🙂 I think AC is fun for adults.
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Oh haha I was definitely not ten!
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Yeah when you’re a kid stuck glaring at the casino from a waiting area for hours on end it’s most definitely not fun!
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I agree with Jade!! Our ghost has been all over the place! 😀 Hopping to the last one!! 😀 😀 😀
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Thank you 🙂 yeah but he’s not really in New Jersey. 🙂
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oh…
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