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RE: STACH Short Story Contest #19: 199 words, 5 winners, 15SBD prize pool!

in #writing6 years ago

Mmama was a mother of three. Her last baby was just a few months old about the time a ghostly disturbance triggered in her house. Before now she never believed in ghosts or any other form of haunted trails.

Mmama was so terrified by a jealous ghost's obsession with her baby that she turned to the church for help in getting her lovely home rid of this undesirable torment. With a heavy heart she explains to the vicar: "we moved into this house towards the harmattan period precisely and we loved it here at first until on the Christmas Eve that the haunting began. I woke up to find that my baby girl, Chioma, had been removed from her crib and was lying at the bottom of our bed, on my foot. Neither myself nor the father had touched her before this event. This was impossible!"

Mmama was literarily shivering in terror as she narrated her ordeal. Still overwhelmed by the torror, she asked: "do ghosts exist?"

"Yes" the vicar replied. He added, "Fear not the terrors of the night, for the Lord is with you". He went to her home, prayed and blessed it and the haunting ended.

(199 Words)