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Prompt this week: +100 words
THIN AIR
“You sure, Grandma?”
“It’s all true, Lilly-bit.”
The ten-year-old gawked left, then right. “I don’t know. Sounds like a tall tale.”
“Not at all. It was a ghost on Halloween that did it.”
“Ghost?”
“The old farmer lived alone. A rowdy ghost came poking around looking for treasure she’d buried. When he investigated, she scared him out of his stiff and grimy pants and shoes.”
“Where’d he go?”
“Whoosh, vanished into thin air.”
“And the lady’s shoes?”
“Don’t need them where ghosts live. Only here.”
“And the treasure?”
“Not sure.”
“How do you know this?”
Grandma’s chin dropped; she grinned.
© 2014 TAK
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