resonant | December Daily: ghosts (Reply)

marginaliana - ghost stories

The spouse has had some seriously spooky experiences, but nothing along those lines has happened to me. He says I'm like the professor's wife in the original movie of The Haunting: not only do I not see ghosts, but no one else can see them when I'm around either.

I would tell you that I don't believe in ghosts, but I had one experience that proved to me that I really did believe. (Forgive me -- I know I've told this story here before, but I don't think I've told it recently.)

Before the kidlet was born, I was awakened out of a sound sleep by the tiniest of rustling noises, and when I opened my eyes, I saw a faintly glowing sphere floating at head height through the dim bedroom, and for a couple of seconds I truly, really, in the depths of my soul believed in ghosts.

What it was was a half-deflated round Mylar foil balloon catching the light of the streetlights as it was chased into the bedroom by a cat who had just figured out that she could reach the ribbon.

Now, the spouse would tell you that he thinks there's a possibility that ghosts exist, but he says his first feeling upon awakening that night was a profound certainty that there must be some non-supernatural explanation.

Specify a date if you want; otherwise I'll just answer them whenever.

This year, in addition to the usual kinds of questions, I'd also love to get storyish prompts. Storyish meaning you never know what you might get: two sentences of a story, or a description of a story that will never exist, or a love song about how much I like that trope, or a rant about my pet peeve about that trope, or I know nothing about that canon except what I see on social media and here's what I think it might be about, or Ten Reasons Why I Love/Hate/Am Indifferent To that character, canon, or trope, or ...

As always, I'd love to hear about it if you're doing the meme too.

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runpunkrun - "a new thing you tried "
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isis and

clevermanka and

trobadora - longhand?!
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china_shop - Guardian as described by someone who only knows it via social media
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kiezh following up with - "What have you heard about MDZS/The Untamed, and what did you think of what you heard?"
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ride4ever's birthday prompt - "Storyish prompt: for any due South fic you've written, write a prequel or sequel snippet for the fic or meta about the before-or-after that can be imagined about the fic's story arc."
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mific - "the genderswap trope where a character's gender is changed. Yes? No? Maybe?"
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runpunkrun - "fake dating: yes or no"
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minoanmiss - "One of my favorite tropes is Then Let Me Be Evil. What do you think of it/have you explored it/so on and so forth?"
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hypertwink - "21. Now that you've come back, is there a fandom that you want to dip your toe into? (Follow up: Are you apprehensive/excited about it?)"
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runpunkrun - "John and Rodney in 2020"
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ride4ever - "for any dS or C6D pairing that you ship, how that ship is doing in 2020."
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reginagiraffe - "Hermione/Harry/Ron from Bed and Board in 2020"
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