Ghoulish

Photo by Toa Heftiba on Unsplash

“I’m telling you; kids don’t get scared the way they used to. The other day I was haunting a hotel room and the kid in there actually laughed at me so hard that I ended up in tears! Me! It’s supposed to be the other way around! I just don’t understand what went wrong. Is it the violent movies? The video games? Harry Potter? Kids just aren’t afraid of ghosts anymore.”

The ghost’s companion rolled his eyes. “Look,” he drawled, “I didn’t want to…