Ghost Story?

By Lindsay Debout

Karen's charity shop purchase comes with unexpected baggage.
A female-friendly short story for adults from the Warming Stories collections. No drugs, no abuse, no violence; just an independent woman coping with life, hopes, fears and desires.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lindsay Debout
• Release date: Oct 27, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463838860

Lindsay Debout

I live in the English countryside with a loving spouse, two equally wonderful children and assorted pets who have their affectionate moments – usually when they’re hungry.I like to write adult-themed stories featuring realistic women coping with realistic situations: no vampires, zombies, aliens or eye-watering sexual gymnastics. Any sexual content is appropriate, realistic and fully consensual.Writing is an occasional pastime; my goal isn’t fabulous riches, but simply to entertain.

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Ghost Story?

an adult short story

from the Warming Stories collections

by

Lindsay Debout

Copyright 2018 Lindsay Debout

This edition published by Smashwords

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This story, and the characters within it are pure fiction. Any resemblance to real people or events is entirely coincidental.

All characters depicted in sexual acts in this work of fiction are 18 years of age or older.

You had to admire the council’s way of thinking. The car park and bus station were at the bottom end of the High Street while the chain stores were at the top end. To get from one to the other you had to walk past all the small shops. It was perfectly planned to support the local shopkeeper.

Perfect in theory. In practice most of the independent shops had gone anyway, replaced by cafés and charity shops, estate agents and fashion accessory chains.

No butchers, no bakers. No candlestick-makers either, but they went centuries ago. No haberdashers or hardware stores. No choice but to use the supermarket.

Karen didn’t mind the walk. She did mind the lack of alternatives, but what could she do about it? Shopping local only works if there are local shops selling what you want to buy.

This charity shop, for example. What did it have to offer that she wanted? Second-hand clothes and second-hand tat. For a good cause, but Karen donated cash every month to her favourite charities.

So why was she inside the shop and closing the door behind her?

She froze. The racks of clothes, books and less identifiable objects muffled the noise from the street. The manageress smiled kindly