Choose
She bought the old manual typewriter on a whim. It seemed to call to her that day in the antique shoppe.
Robert was in bed snoring when she set it up in the study. Sipping Merlot, wondering what to type, she needn’t have; as the moment her fingertips rested on asdfjkl; they typed of their own volition faster than she’d ever typed in her seventy years.
Eyes widened, throat dry, and breath shallow she read the words:
“I’ve waited thirty years for you to tell Robert. Now choose which of you joins me at midnight.”
The clock struck eleven.
[100 words]
Rochelle Wisoff-Fields is the host of Friday Fictioneers.
This is so good. I want more of this story.
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🙂 Thanks!
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😍
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Great premise, Jade.
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Thank you, Neil.
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An evil spirit communicating through a type writer – great start to a ghost story.
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Who says the spirit is evil? Maybe she’s the evil one for hiding an important secret for so long? Just sayin…
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p.s. thank you for reading and commenting
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Intriguing write – and I so like intrigue.
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Thank you, Anthony!
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Oh my goodness, that gave me a chill. What a take on the photo prompt!
Susan A Eames at
Travel, Fiction and Photos
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Some things won’t be put off forever… Thank you for reading and your comment, Susan 🙂
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Faustian pact, is it? This could be so very interesting
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I’m not sure. I just think the one typing the words is tired of the one who has gotten away with something for a long time getting away with it.
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Who knows what kind of vengeance can even be gotten from beyond the grave?
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If he/it can type from beyond the grave….
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I think that she is either going to tell Robert about that time that she cheated on him, or that she plans to leave him.
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Big change is coming for one of them. If only she’d spilled her guts sooner…
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What now? The typewriter knows too much. It might have to be taken for… “a ride.”
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LOL
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Maybe it’s the preacher who wasn’t a real preacher who married them…and she knew all along but didn’t tell Robert…Robert has to find out he is not married.
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🙂 You never know!
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Chilling mystery
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Thank you, Sa!
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A haunted typewriter! An hour to decide…
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How intriguing, and so very sinister. You must take this further.
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Thank you, Sandra. I will see what I can do. Maybe continue the story with the next prompt if I can.
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Dear Lisa,
There’s something über chilling about a possessed inanimate object. The stuff of good horror stories. Well done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Rochelle, thank you and glad you were chilled by the story!
Shalom,
Lisa
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Very mysterious! So many possibilities – I love it!
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Thank you, Clare, glad you enjoyed it.
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Many possibilities both before and after…(K)
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Glad you see potential there 🙂 On another topic, I worked on a collage earlier today, trying to recreate the image I saw in a dream. It’s coming together nicely!
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Excellent! I’ll look out for it.
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Yikes! At her age, the poor woman will have a stroke or heart attack before midnight!
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May be!
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at least, she gets to pick. lovely. 🙂
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🙂
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Love the premise. I’m just wondering if Robert’s going to suffer! 😉
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You might find out next week!
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Whoa! This is good stuff, Lisa. More please!
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Thank you!
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Wow, what’s going on? What’s happening in the garden we need to know.
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🙂
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I’m coming back in an hour! Brilliant.
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Thanks, Keith!
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Gotta love a typewriter with a mind of its own – or someone else’s!
Great fun
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Thanks! Hey, I don’t want to be a pest or unreasonable, but is there a way you can designate your scary stories with an asterisk after the title so I can feel safe to read the non-scary ones and skip the scary ones? Feel free to say hell no. Just askin… Right now I can’t read any of them, which is unfortunate because I really like your writing.
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Hmm, this is a bit embarrassing, because I wasn’t aware that I wrote scary stories.
I just looked back and I don’t think I have written anything with even a hint of nastiness in many weeks, which rather surprises me!
So I think you need to help me out here or else, sadly, I am going to lose a valued reader.
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Well, the last one I read and/or tried to read was about a person on vaca who decided to “treat himself” with a couple of children (best my memory can recall.) It’s ok, carry on!
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I echo everyone else when I say we want more!
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🙂 Thanks for reading and glad you like the cliffhanger.
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Now that is a chiller! I’m not sure telling us what happens next will make it any better. The one hour to choose premise is really scary.
Show us the knife, and we’ll imagine the blood…
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Well she’s had years to choose not to tell Robert whatever it is she needed to. I guess whoever it is decided to set a deadline (pun intended — hey, that should have been the title!)
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Wow, a Ouija board typewriter with an ultimatum.
Will He be her type (pun intended), or will she go with him who is behind her bedroom door?
Let’s spin the Wheel of Fortune!
fun story.
Randy
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I got a chuckle out of your comment, Randy. Glad you enjoyed the story.
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I love where this story is going, pitty it has to stop at one hundred words. Well penned.
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Thank you, Susan, glad you enjoyed it.
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She has left it rather late to store thing up, but what I ask myself is she up to
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Hoping to answer some questions next week, Mike.
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I really liked the crisp compactness of the narrative, most satisfying to read.
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Thank you, glad you enjoyed it.
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This was mystical but at the same time realistic. Well done!
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Thank you very much, Keigh!
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You’re welcome!
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Thanks for sharing!
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Oh dear she is in a spot of bother. Not everyone gets a Ghost Writer that they are comfortable with.
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🙂 great comment!
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They say write what you know, I sense some guilty secrets are about to be revealed.
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Shhhhhh
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I am intrigued!
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Good! That was my intent! 🙂
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The shallow breath made me think of covid-19 infection… Maybe this should be called “Love in the time of Corona” … the writer could have been a female version of Florentino Ariza
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Such a wonderful response.
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Sometimes, characters in a story take on a life of their own, but this scenario goes way beyond that. A chilling tale
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🙂 I’m going to try for another installment this week…
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Nice!
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Oooooo thisbus fabulous!
Love the dark turn. I want to know so much more.
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Thanks, Laurie. You may learn more in this week’s installment.
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A great story, this really kept my attention.
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I think it’s a great shaggy dog story. In my imagination its the muse who is stalking her.
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May be!
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