Aisling Cunningham

Just a girl sharing her love of reading and writing with whoever wants to visit my mind. 🩵

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Aisling Cunningham

Just a girl sharing her love of reading and writing with whoever wants to visit my mind. 🩵

https://www.instagram.com/aisling.cunningham.writes?igsh=mthvbzh3bwoxywv4dw%3d%3d&utm_source=qr

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Hunter

Aisling Cunningham

2 min read

The afterlife was not nearly as relaxing as I’d hoped.

When I first woke as a ghost, I had tried everything in my power to communicate with my family, my friends, or anyone who might hear me. Not that I had any success.

So, I resigned myself to simply sticking around. I hung around my old haunts (pun intended), watched over my family, and kept trying to interact with things and people. That was ...

Horror

Drama

Silence

Aisling Cunningham

1 min read

Without sound, without distance

A floating abyss that is as claustrophobic as a panic room

Or as vast as outer space

Isolation

No living soul around

No wind

No rustling of leaves

No footsteps

Your heartbeat stays inside your chest

Your breath stays inside your lungs

All around is white

Because the darkness holds far more sound

But the light? It exposes

If there is nothing in the light

Then ther...

Poetry

Horror

Trust

Aisling Cunningham

1 min read

The edge of a knife/

A lifted ballerina:

Trust’s always a risk...

Poetry

The Visitor

Aisling Cunningham

2 min read

She takes a deep breath, closing her eyes, as she soaks in the quiet stillness of the graveyard. Though many people in her life have disparaged her for it, she can’t help but feel grounded and calm when she walks among the headstones. Perhaps it is the idea that, for some of the souls at rest here, she is the only one who still visits their final resting place.

This graveyard is her favorite to w...

Drama

Humour