{"id":85,"date":"2018-07-05T13:09:31","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T13:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hamsterbandit.com\/?page_id=85"},"modified":"2022-09-09T09:18:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T09:18:40","slug":"ghost-stories","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hamsterbandit.com\/?page_id=85","title":{"rendered":"Ghost Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ghost stories. I love them. And in Autumn 2017, I tried my hand at writing them. Here are my 7 tales.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hamsterbandit.com\/?page_id=87\">Anih and the Ship<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When Anih finds a sunken ship during a survey, she decides she&#8217;ll be the first to explore it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hamsterbandit.com\/?page_id=90\">Racing the Clock<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rapid Gal has an appointment to make. She promised her girlfriend and this time she won&#8217;t be late.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hamsterbandit.com\/?page_id=92\">Plan A, Plan B, Plan C<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cats. The cause of (some) and solution to (some of) life&#8217;s problems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hamsterbandit.com\/?page_id=95\">Darting Through the Sunbeams<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was once the king of its domain. Now it has time to rest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hamsterbandit.com\/?page_id=97\">The Dog That Dug Up Its Own Past<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There&#8217;s a dog digging up holes in everyone&#8217;s yard. Tempest is On It.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hamsterbandit.com\/?page_id=99\">The Three Trials of Eleni<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Be mindful of who&#8217;s listening when you say your worries to the wind.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hamsterbandit.com\/?page_id=103\">Heart As Light As Snow<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Usra is a witch, which means she solves problems.Someone or something is murdering people near her home which is a problem.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hamsterbandit.com\/?page_id=122\">In The Woods There Was A Cottage<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ana dreams of cold water now.\u00a0Tag: Ghost of a Grandmother &amp; Small Runaway Child Who Hides In Her Abandoned Cottage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hamsterbandit.com\/?page_id=126\">Sunken Water<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rivers have souls. Haven&#8217;t you ever watched one? They&#8217;re alive.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hamsterbandit.com\/?page_id=131\">The Night Visitor of May 6th, 1978<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For the tag &#8216;the littlest bedsheet ghost on his first haunting&#8217; &#8211; a carpenter finds a diary hidden away in a wall, recalling a strange night decades ago.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hamsterbandit.com\/?page_id=134\">The Treasure of Captain Bloodeye<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They say that if you follow the Moon past Skull Island, and don&#8217;t lose your way in the in the twists and turns of the reef, you&#8217;ll find yourself at Captain Bloodeye&#8217;s last resting place&#8230; and his treasure. But beware! He took hundreds of lives in life. And in death? He&#8217;d hardly be the type to let that get in the way of protecting what&#8217;s his.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hamsterbandit.com\/?page_id=139\">Hop Skip Jump<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A new life is just a hyperjump away! Wait, one more. And another. They&#8217;re catching up!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hamsterbandit.com\/?page_id=141\">The Legend of the Pigdog<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Pigdog has hunted campers for longer than Aya has been alive. At least, that&#8217;s what they tell her.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Notes: The Pigdog is a real legend at least one YMCA camp told their campers. Those are real songs. The peanut song ends in death, at least how I was told it.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hamsterbandit.com\/?page_id=144\">The Sea&#8217;s Dead<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A perfectly preserved wreck does not lead to any joy for Lettie.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hamsterbandit.com\/?page_id=172\">Pop Goes Jack<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A short story about toys, children, and how it doesn&#8217;t end well when you completely dismiss both.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>I lived alone with my daughter in a house which was far too large for us, but had the advantage of being inherited from my parents. I worked hard to maintain it and expected my daughter to do what she could to make raising her simpler. She was a quiet girl, her most obvious fault a tendency toward flights of fancy while I did my best to keep her anchored in reality.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hamsterbandit.com\/?page_id=174\">At The Edge of the Old Forest was a Spirit<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At the edge of the rainforest was a spirit, leading the replanting efforts to work in reverse in an attempt to delay contact. But they can&#8217;t stop planting and what remains of the forest, both living and dead, intends they finish the job. Keli wants to see the rainforest flourish again<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hamsterbandit.com\/?page_id=176\">Life is a highway, I want to ride it all night long<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On a lonely stretch of road it&#8217;s a yearly event. (A story about the Phantom Passenger)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hamsterbandit.com\/?page_id=182\">Haunted Places, Haunted Spaces<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A compilation of 15 haunted locations and objects. Metafiction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hamsterbandit.com\/?page_id=193\">10 Haunted Drabbles<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10 very short ghost stories. The miracle that wasn&#8217;t, a mixtape with more than memories, a dangerous garden, and more in this collection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hamsterbandit.com\/?page_id=200\">10 More Haunted Drabbles<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10 more very short ghost stories. A woman gardens strange flowers. A girl deals with her mother&#8217;s match-making ghost. A tormented haunting is welcome. An unwelcome friend on a walk.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hamsterbandit.com\/?page_id=330\">Fake It &#8216;Til You Make it<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Madame Lareesia, aka Patricia &#8216;Patty&#8217; Miller of Detroit, Michigan is not in the business of providing truthful fortunes to her customers. She provides a bespoke service of comfort and pat solutions. To her annoyance, her spectral playmate believes honesty is the best policy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghost stories. I love them. And in Autumn 2017, I tried my hand at writing them. Here are my 7 tales. Anih and the Ship When Anih finds a sunken ship during a survey, she decides she&#8217;ll be the first to explore it. Racing the Clock Rapid Gal has an appointment to make. 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