Content: ghost

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This is meant to be one short piece of flash fiction comprised of 7 short flash pieces that stand on their own as individual stories. It's an experiment I decided to try and I'm very interested to know if you think that it's effective. What would you change in terms of how these stories are presented, the order they are presented, and the 7 themes that create the story. Also, do you feel that each flash piece presents a stand-on-its-own story while also playing into the larger story well? Any feedback is welcome. Thanks.

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Someone stole a grain bin from a cantankerous farmer in rural Alberta, and Valerie Stevens is on the case. Finding it should be an easy task for the police, too bad the thief has been dead for nearly one hundred years. She's a senior civil servant for Government Services and Infrastructure Canada, though her name won't be found on any government ledger. The Prime Minister will deny any knowledge of her existence, even though he's in the habit of calling her apartment on a hot line to get the scores of last night's hockey game from her boyfriend. She's been accused of sorcery, and she prefers to be known as an alchemist. Her connection to the unseen world is the ghost of a long-dead Canadian Prime Minister, and that grain bin? Well, it just fell out of a hole in reality, crash landing on a busy Calgary intersection at rush-hour. What's a grain bin got to do with an undead presence . The only ones with answers are a group of corrupt cops who moonlight as vampires, an ogre names Dennis, and of course, a werewolf with a low self-esteem. It's all in a day's work for Valerie Stevens as she tries to save city from a baneful and simmering evil that's about to be unleashed

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An odd 'ting, ting, ting' coming through the woods draws a passerby to have a closer look at an abandoned homestead. A woman's brooch causes the reader to say, "Hmmmmm."

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A reporter, recently relocated from New York to Wilmington, North Carolina, and researching the fact that Willie Mosconi once played pool in a local bar, comes across a ghost story about three patrons who died in a fire at the Hotel Orton in 1949 and reportedly still haunt the bar (now called Orton's) that was in its basement. He discovers, though, that newspaper reports on the fire show no indication of any deaths in the fire and wonders about the validity of the ghost story. Shooting pool at Orton's one night, the reporter is physically approached by the Ghost of the Hotel Orton, who proceeds to tell him the story of what really happened that night, asking the reporter to more or less set the record straight.

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Something holds Georgia Danforth earthbound, even sixty years after her death. When Max Araña moves into her house to work on his art, Georgia sees a way to finally communicate to the living, telling her story through the graphic novel Max draws. Kat Cox, an old college friend of Max's, hits the breaking point and moves into the house to collaborate on the project with Max, combing her photographs with his art. Max's art, however, takes a very dark turn. Although Georgia tries to chase Kat away, Kat can't walk away from the disintegrating Max. She chooses to decipher the story and figure out how to put Georgia at peace. *PLEASE READ FROM THE BEGINNING. I'M LOOKING FOR STORY CONTINUITY*

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A spooky ride with a saintly fellow named Chuck. Another attempt at a good story of less than 5K words for contest. Is it "fleshed out" enough? There are still about a thousand words I can add, what does it need more of?

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The town bully get his just deserts in a small mid-western town when he goes one step to far.

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...this PICTO requires much squinting to discern the hinting of its ghostly visage ...which will of course be at large on halloween around your house n elsewhere in between!

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Not sure what to do with this, probably works better as a short story, but decided to try it as a poem. I would appreciate any helpful feedback. It needs lots of tweaking.

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