Episode 31: "The Ghost of the Future"
This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.
Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 31, for Thursday the 31st of October 2024, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt.
Your one-hundred word story for the day is: The Ghost of the Future
Peter shucks off the hated school trousers and shirt, and takes more comfortable clothes from the very back of the wardrobe. A double bedsheet, with neat eyeholes, completes the outfit.
Arms raised, the ghost checks carefully in the bathroom mirror.
"Going to the party?" asks Mum.
"Wooooo!"
"Very scary, Pete. Enjoy yourself. Be a good boy."
"Nooooooo!"
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