We are starting the spookiest month of the year. And what better way than a ghost story taken out of the mind if the one and only G-dog. The prompt from the #weekend-engagement initiative goes as follows:
Ghost for a weekend
You're a ghost for the weekend, anywhere on the planet. You can pass through walls, fly and move objects, but you can't touch anyone. What do you do and why? Who do you haunt, if anyone? After the weekend you return to being yourself. Write a minimum of 300 words.
It's important to understand that any weekend is spooky when you live in Latin America.
Happy Haunting
If I could be a ghost for the weekend, I doubt I would be up for any good. I mean why would I? It's haunting time!
Let's make something clear. With a chance like this the opportunity of enacting revenge from beyond the grave against the government officials would be so easy. These people are very supersticious. It would be a piece of cake to go around their hauses and play Poltergeist. You would hear news from Venezuela about a lot of politicians dying from heart attacks!
But I would stop there. The opposition are as bad behaved as the ones in power. They are the idiots who have make deals with the regime to keep them in power and not lose their privileges. They would go out too. Those haunting powers would be put to good use.
Third in my list would be the armed forces. They were supposed to be on our side, but they chose to protect the regime, well, the curse of this angry ghost would make sure there won't be anymore of this. I'll drag each school, officer and cadet down into hell. Right into the 9the circle. You know that reserved for traitors. Let's them freeze for eternity there.
When I talked with the G-dog about this, he told me he had a haunting list. I don't have one, but I'd use my powers for this greater good. Getting rid of the politicians on the country would be a relief. Also, eliminating all those rotten tomatoes in the law enforcement corps.
About how to do it, here's my take on this. If I'm ghost, I think I would be able to divide myself in order to cover more terrain. That way I can start haunting people in their works and keep the act going all day. In traffic lights, objects around them and so. There are not many screens in Venezuela. At least not on the streets, that's a downside to the activity, but superstition is high, so that's a plus. I bet there would be lots of people going to churches and calling priests. I would get their Bibles and throw them away.
That's a funny image.
My favorite act would be going into their devices and altering the content they are watching. And do some cinema tricks. Like a bleeding screen and making the people in videos turn their heads around and say something in diabolical tones.
Then back in their houses, I would go full on The Shining mode. Illusions, more blood, creepy sounds. I'd close the doors and grind their sanity bit by bit. Just to make sure they are not fit to keep playing with people's needs.
If none of my tactics work, there's always the ace under the sleeve. Possession. That's the nick of being a ghost after all. Inside this wretched bodies forcing them to do the world a favor for good.
And what are they gonna call? Nobody. It is a shame the money of the country is only used to get them fat. There's no technology to detect ghost nor to get rid of them. Thus, I'll be free to do my spectral biding and come back to my body fresh and not feeling sorry for the bastards!
Ah, if only it weren't a hypothetical thing.
Stepping aside from all the social justice and service for the country, I'd love to do this pulling leg thing. It's something people say a lot. "When I die if you don't do this, I'll come back as a ghost and pull your legs while you sleep". I don't know the origin of the phrase, but I can't think of a more annoying thing that being asleep and feel someone pulled your legs. It is the whole reason we cover our feet with blankets while we sleep. Warmth is just a side effect. We all know it. But are blankets ghost proof?
I hope my idea was interesting to read and at least cracked a laugh for being funny or being just plainly silly. I love how this idea of hauting people came for a very silly comment the G-dog replied a while ago.
Would you do something different? Would you use your ghost powers for good?
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