I plan to do a new weekly twitter prompt this year, #vsshauntedhouse. I thought I’d try it out as an ongoing story, so I’ll pin it up here and we’ll see where it goes. I may write in between prompts as well, using the weekly 280 characters as a jumping-off point.
A Hyssop Falls Haunting (Placeholder Title)
“Let me be the first to #welcome you to Hyssop Falls, Mrs.–?”
“Lucy is fine. Lucy Bishop. And I lived here when I was a little girl. Do you have the paperwork?”
“Surely you’d like to see the house before you–”
“I already know everything I need to know.”
A light upstairs seemed to be #flickering. Lucy counted the windows. Great Aunt Enid’s room, the blue guest room–the light was in the nursery. She shuddered and closed her eyes. When she opened them, the window was dark. Was the lace curtain moving?
Lucy sneezed. Her flashlight illuminated the dust clogging the air and played over the cobweb-draped dollhouse that dominated the dining table. She’d loved the replica of Great Aunt Enid’s house as a child. Had there always been a tiny row of carved #headstones in the garden?