I Don't Believe in Ghosts: Horror Flash Fiction

By S.B.

Where there's no imagination, there's no horror but, if you have plenty, may the Old Gods have pity on your soul. Just in time for Halloween, I Don't Believe in Ghosts is a collection of 31 blood-curdling tales where anything is possible and where the things you don't believe in, sadly believe in you. Ghosts, vampires, monsters in the bedroom, hungry fairies, flat-out horrific human beings, and other things that defy description come together to make the world burn. Reading this book will probably make you afraid of the dark. What do you believe in?

• Language: English
• Publisher: S.B.
• Release date: Oct 30, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215159804

S.B.

Simple Being, middle name Creative. Writer and artist with a penchant for stories involving Female Domination, Hypnosis and Mind Control. My thoughts are my own except when they're not.

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I Don’t Believe in Ghosts…

-Horror Flash Fiction-

By S.B.

Copyright 2018-2023 S.B. All Rights Reserved.

Cover Design by Oliviaprodesign

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Disclaimer

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, business, events, and incidents are the products of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. All characters are over 18.

Contents

I Don’t Believe in Ghosts…

Quit While You’re Ahead

She’s Coming Back

Nothing to See

Everything She Wants…

Her Face

Eyes

Natural

Cry

Deflated

Pale

The Monster

Two Suns

Fear

It’s All in the Wrists

3:21

Letters to Santa

New Year, New Food

The Party

Do It

Violet

From Below

Don’t Play That Music Again

Vampires

Move Out

Meteor Shower

Examination

Release

They…

Ravenous

Evelyn

I Don’t Believe in Ghosts…

I don't believe in ghosts, but ghosts believe in me. I can't think of any other reason why they allow me to see them in the first place. I wish they didn't.

If you believe this to be a gift and envy my position, please don't. There are approximately seven billion living people in the world. Just imagine how many dead ones are out there. Yes, that's right. Scared now?

Unlike what you see in the movies and such, the ghosts of the dead are mostly static, don't move objects, don't possess others. They're like fleeting photographs attached to the memory of a place, in some cases brief videos on a loop. They're predictable, yet that doesn't make them less unnerving.

How can I take a shower knowing I'll always see that squalid young girl kneeling by the bathroom rug foaming from her mouth from a cold medicine overdose? How can