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“I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.”
“Miss Millick wondered just what had happened to Mr. Wran. He kept making the strangest remarks when she took dictation. Just this morning he had quickly turned around and asked, "Have you ever seen...”
“It had all begun on the elevated. There was a particular little sea of roots he had grown into the habit of glancing at just as the packed car carrying him homeward lurched around a turn. A dingy, ...”
“He clicked the Save button, and there was the sound of a trumpet fanfare. A cleverly designed Flash animation in emerald green illuminated in gold leapt out at him in a 3D effect like the titles of...”
“When life is a horror....Don't look like a ghost!”
“The air changes. Then that invisible spider crawls up my spine, tickling the hairs behind my neck. I have come to know this spider these last couple of years. It whispers theres something else in t...”
“Maybe I'll really try to kiss her, even if I fall through her like a raindrop.”
“The tales of pure terror, of course, are completely naturalistic in their content, and must stand or fall by their merit alone. But what about the supernatural stories? Can we, the children of a sc...”
“Because every story is a ghost story, even mine.”
“I began to doubt that I would ever know the truth of what transpired, or who those people really were. But all that changed one rainy August afternoon, when I was surprised by a dead man who had an...”
“I'd have your back off-site too, if you'd let me." ~Cain, Ghost of You”
“You rented the apartment with a dead guy in the corner? I shrugged. I wanted the apartment, and I figured I could cover him up with a bookcase or something.”
“Eight-and-twenty years,' said I, 'I have lived, and never a ghost have I seen as yet.'The old woman sat staring hard into the fire, her pale eyes wide open.'Ay,' she broke in; 'and eight-and-twenty...”
“Do you really think Ive been murdered? Michaels voice was soft, but I still heard it from across the bedroom. He stood in the doorway with a rather solemn expression. Words failed me. Would he real...”
“I was too much taken up with another interest to care; I felt beneath my feet the threshold of the strange door, in my life, which had suddenly been thrown open and out of which came an air of a ke...”
“The Toyota plowed headlong into the boy. But there was no impact. No screams, no blood, no bending metal.The boy simply dematerialized in a swirl of white light.”
“My shooting star wish would truthfully be to never leave your side. To be the one who will be there to encourage you in all your hopes and dreams. Be there if you fail so I can pick you back up and...”
“We do remember once we were wrong sacrificing everything for idols and stones likewise today for ghost and phantoms.”
“GHOSTS IN THE MINDThere are no ghosts among the livingThe only real ghosts exist in our mindsSo fear not the dead but the livingBecause the living can harm but not their ghostHave you ever seen a d...”
“His ghost comes back to be remembered. If he cant be in this life, he procures a way to stay in orbit, and in that way, is never forgotten.”
