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January 18, 2009
"I wonder what a psychologist would have said had I told him that the ghosts of dead patients frequented my apartment and jabbed at my job performance." -- All that haunts me still. by ~jkrende
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Funeral Dinner
October 14th
Dear diary, I am going to die. Well, obviously. That sounds pretty existential, so let me clarify: I am going to die in the very near future. There are a number of ways it could happen now and none of them are very appealing. Every trip I’ve ever taken has involved some sort of disaster: arriving at the bus terminal late, lost luggage, flight cancellations. But I’d never experienced a plane crash before.
I was going to Paris. I told my wife it was a business trip but, here’s the kick
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compulsive liar.
once i asked you your favourite
colour, and you said, "the brown
of your eyes," so i put in one green
contact and told everyone that i
came out of the womb as a factory
defect, half-priced, damaged goods.
-
sometimes i am from canada and
sometimes i am from england and
sometimes i am from spain.
i've carefully tempered my accents
and plotted out my stories with
yellow and purple coloured pencils
on index cards. my origin changes
like the seasons.
"why do you lie to everyone?" you
ask.
"why not?" i reply.
-
i wear nametags that read "alicia"
and "liana" and "samantha," because
i want to know how it feels to be
someon
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Cadaver Hotel
I live inside of your corpse. Stealing
in through the incision
between your ribcage and hipbone, I burrow
myself inside of your embalmed organs and
wrap my fingers around your bones,
clutching until my knuckles turn
the same kind of white.
Though you are dead,
your body sometimes quakes-
spasms and sends a flash-pulse of postmortem waves
over me. For quick sucks of air,
I crawl up and out of your pretty mouth, careful
not to hit your crooked teeth.
To avoid dying inside of you-
oh, how I long to-
I have taken
to gnawing on the insides of your cheeks
and the sinewy parts of your
atrophied muscles.
Yesterday you beg
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I normally don't do a lot of first person writing, but I started this as an experiment and I think it worked very well, much like A Little Ghost Story. This is a very lightly edited second draft, so I know it still needs some polishing. I would appreciate any and all feedback.
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*Update: Edits and changes with thanks to Demonlight for her input. I'll wait a day or two and update it one last time.
**Update again.
Okay, I did a lot of thinking and searching after speaking to Bringa about this piece. I think this version works a little better, but I also think it has a little more impact. I know it's not spot-on perfect just yet, but I am going to stick to this version. I think this suits me very well. Thanks to everyone who's given me feedback, I appreciate it!
Advanced content for language and situation.
*Update: Edits and changes with thanks to Demonlight for her input. I'll wait a day or two and update it one last time.
**Update again.
Okay, I did a lot of thinking and searching after speaking to Bringa about this piece. I think this version works a little better, but I also think it has a little more impact. I know it's not spot-on perfect just yet, but I am going to stick to this version. I think this suits me very well. Thanks to everyone who's given me feedback, I appreciate it!
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Wow. This story brings the memories back. I worked for years as an EMT, ER tech/orderly, and morgue orderly, so I am more familiar with ghosts of this type than I would like to be. Very few of the people I worked with over the years would even adknowlege this sort of thing, let alone be able to speak or write about it with such eloquence and visceral intensity. Bravo.
I'm not going to comment on the technical aspects of the story, since there is nothing I could say that hasn't been said already, and I am not much of a writer to begin with.
I'm not going to comment on the technical aspects of the story, since there is nothing I could say that hasn't been said already, and I am not much of a writer to begin with.