After Life

A day in the life of a ghost. Just a little vignette....

Death isn't all it's cracked up to be. When I died, I assumed my afterlife was going to be like they show on tv, or in that Patrick Swayze movie. Well I can tell you all now, it's all a bald faced lie. You don't get to haunt people. You can't cause objects to move with your mind, and you definitely can't communicate with the living. I know that last bit for sure, since I've been trying to do it for almost three years. What I think is funny is that people just assume we're here for a purpose, because we've got "unfinished business" or regrets, or some crap. The only regret I have is that on the day I died, I didn't charge my ipod. If I had at least done that, I would've had some music to accompany me during my after life, and some fun apps. Instead here I am today, lurking around my hometown of Hinsdale, spying on old friends and families going about their life, music-less and shabbily dressed. Everyone seems to have forgotten me. Even my parents don't visit my grave every week like they used to. That's the worst part of being dead, you see your memory fading to nothing, and there isn't a damned thing you can do about it. 

Author's Note

what do you think? I want to add a little, but don't know if I should.

Reviews

[hannahjchin]

I think it's just about perfect, the short bit about the 'fun apps' seemed a little out of place for me.

[Alicka]

Wow, I like how you wrote this : "When I died, I assumed my afterlife was going to be like they show on tv, or in that Patrick Swayze movie. Well I can tell you all now, it's all a bald faced lie." I don't know but it put me in a frame of mind to what's coming next. I think you should add a little bit more to it, like the person's name and how they died. Other then that great job.!

[.quan.011.]

Wow, this is a powerful yet short story. Keep it up.