Two Ghosts in Fifty Words

A couple of stories in exactly 50 words

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For these two pieces, I have written to a prompt from

Justin Deming

to use the word GHOST.

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First Date

They met for the first time today. He rattled on about his family, his work, his favorite films. About his motorcycle adventures, his trip to Jamaica. He was so nervous, he totally forgot to say, “Tell me about yourself.” He doesn’t have a ghost of a chance with her.

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Anticlimax

The book was enormously successful. A brilliant first work, they said. Such dazzling prose! She wasn’t as gratified as she’d hoped to be. His name was on the cover, not hers. She had agreed to the contract, of course. She just hadn’t anticipated how invisible a ghost writer would feel.