My entry to this year's ghost story contest
Hi folks! I didn't win, but hey, 300 people entered! I was glad to at least have someone read it. Here it is: A Modern Woman I’ve never believed in ghosts. I always thought that they were dreamt up by people with too much time on their hands coupled with an overactive imagination. Ghost encounter shows on TV were to me, a form of comedy. I’d never given ghosts much thought. Thought as in, what they look like, if they can talk to you, what they wear, stuff like that. Nope, most days I just never thought of ghosts. I went about my life, happy as most people are I suppose. I work as a print manager at an advertising agency. I am a post-modern woman, stretched too thin, doing it all and exhausted. I have a career, three great kids, and never a moment to myself. And I had a really great partner. You’re thinking because I say “partner” that it must be a woman, but no, he’s a man. I mean he was a man. He was a really great man, and we just never had time to get married. We had ti