Writing Prompt

Benefits of being friends with the ghost who lives in my attic: I’m never lonely, they have many interesting stories, they help me with my history class and if I wasn’t friends with them it wouldn’t be a very unhappy household.

Faults of being friends with the ghost who lives in my attic: everyone thinks I’m crazy when I talk to them, they think the earth is flat, they make an awful racket when I...

Making friends with the ghost in your attic is fun. Until you have to join them…...

Making friends with the ghost in my attic brings me many benefits as well as faults.

Jenny is a thirteen years old who killed herself twenty years ago, right before my parents moved in, after being bullied. I was the first friend she ever had, even though it was too late to save her life. We could sometimes talk for hours on the Ouija bord and she made me feel a little less lonely too.

But one ...

Making friends with the ghost in your attic brings you many benefits as well as faults.

You finally have someone to talk to, a therapist phantom you can vent to at any time. But no one else can see them so you might as well be talking to yourself and well … you know what they say talking to yourself is the first sign of.

If only that ghost was here now so I didn’t have to spend so much time lost...

Making friends with the ghost in your attic brings you many benefits as well as faults. The difficulty, as one might expect, is the making friends bit. You have to have a ghost who’s actually willing to be friends, and not one like Melba. She’s a spook with an attitude; and when I say attitude, I mean a full-blown disregard of the living.

My first encounter with our irascible wraith was a rather ...

Making friends with the ghost in your attic brings you many benefits, as well as faults… When I first laid eyes on the ghost, my initial reaction wasn’t fear, but curiosity. His name was Ben, and he appeared to me in a soldiers uniform. He was older than me, but only just. Through him, I learned so much about the Second World War. Things school never taught us. The war became an interest of mine, ...

Making friends with the ghost in your attic can bring you many benefits as well as thoughts. For one thing haunted houses come cheap, like really cheap. Or I wouldn’t be telling this story. But then of course when she gets pissed all the lights go out so you have to adjust for candle costs but have you seen the prices of lightbulbs these days? They have the nerve to call me insane. When it’s sle...

I thought you were mine

And oh how I

Idolised you

Idolised your faults

Pretended we just went

Pretended that

I hadn’t ripped myself apart

For you

And yet

You’ll never truly be mine

Cause your you

And now I’m alone

Through my own

Doing

Oh but surely it wasn’t just me

Cause the things you said

How could you be so cruel?

Your face haunts me

And now I’m bleeding

You promised

You’d catch me

But wh...

Making friends with the ghost in your attic brings you many benefits as well as faults. For example, you always have someone to confide in without the fear of them spilling your secrets to someone else. After all, you’re the only one who sees them. The only problem is coming up with different excuses to go up to the attic everyday after school. It’s usually easy to convince my brother that the att...

“As a whole, humans are capable of greater good than evil”

Please don’t preach

“It’s true, you only hear about the bad because bad news travels faster”

That’s bullshit

“It’s not, I swear, you being here and listening to me is reason enough to stay human”

I don’t think you understand

“Enlighten me so I can carry it for eternity”

My brother isn’t capable of greater good

“But…”

Stop

“…sorr...