Fiction Friday: The Ghost Girl Story Continues
By Leslie Lindsay Last week, we met Evelyn, a 6-year old girl who is motherless and lifeless…she’s a ghost. Her story picks up here. Oh, but there is so much more to Evelyn. When I was six years old, I died. Energy is neither created, nor destroyed but transformed into another state. People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh melts away. Eventually their bones crumble and dissipate. This is both dreadful and natural. Yet for some there is an exception to this annihilation. They can become a ghost, like me. Are you scared? You shouldn’t be. I’m just a little girl. I stand about 49 inches tall. I have lots of ideas and a rag doll I carry with me all the time. It was made for me by my mother and since I no longer have her, the doll cleaves to my heart, clutched in my hands. When I bury my nose into the rose print cloth, I imagine I can smell her scent, deep and warm …