Jack Fraser

Just remembered I have a #spooky seasonal Christmas ghost story if you fancy it. (Some of you may have seen it before.)

I don't often write #ShortStories and when I do they're very different from my longer fiction.

https://medium.com/@Muninnherself/genii-locorum-ad3c4eb65152

#ChristmasGhostStory #WinterChills #Hookland

Genii Locorum - Jack Fraser - Medium

I arrive at the house in late December. A hard frost lingers on the shaded circle of lawn before the front door, the bare branches of the surrounding trees scratching at the sky. It’s mid-afternoon…

Medium
Dec 22, 2022 at 10:55amWeb
Show threadEarl Dave of MaegonSaete 🖖Dec 22, 2022
@muninnherself great to see the #Hookland tag on Mastodon 👌
Show threadJack FraserDec 22, 2022
@DaRC_Fantom lots of friends of the county here I think!
Show threadthesweetcheatDec 24, 2022
@muninnherself this is just great. Your descriptive prose is so good, but my favourite bit is the clever reproduction of other styles in the quotes from earlier reports. I don't think I would want to go there though 🙂
Show threadJack FraserDec 24, 2022
@thesweetcheat ah thank you very much! It’s quite an accurate description of a real place which probably isn’t spooky at all, but I found it very inspiring. The character of a very old building is complex, isn’t it.
Show threadthesweetcheatDec 24, 2022
@muninnherself very much so, and I love the bit about the reconfigured flat on that point.
Show threadJack FraserDec 24, 2022
@thesweetcheat I used to live in a conversion and although I never walked into a wall, I had nightmares where I couldn't get out of my bedroom, which I think is the same thing.
Show threadthesweetcheatDec 24, 2022
@muninnherself that's fascinating, I've not really thought of the subconscious effect of rooms being reconfigured before.
Show threadJack FraserDec 24, 2022
@thesweetcheat it took me ages to work out what was going on (i.e. that the nightmares were all very similar and not something I've ever dreamed about before (or since)) so it was a subconsious thing I guess.
Show threadthesweetcheatDec 24, 2022
@muninnherself perhaps you were bricked up in a cellar in a past life (although that wouldn't tally with your love of bricks I guess)
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