PHOTO PROMPT © Liz Young
“I found it.” Pam whispered.
“What are you whispering for? It’s not like you’re going to wake the dead!” Mark guffawed as he handed her the etching paper and pencil.
“Shhhh. Just give me the paper. I hate graveyards; damn history class!” Pam’s hands shook as she created an etching of the famous headstone.
“Do you believe the legend that says if you rub the headstone the old man will show up?” Mark sneered.
“No! God! Stop it Mark!”
Suddenly the temperature plummeted. Pam whipped around to scold Mark for his incessant laughter, but he was gone.
~kat
(97 Words)
For Rochelle Wisoff-Fields’ Friday Fictioneers challenge based on this photo by Liz Young.
like mercury colliding... 
April 26th, 2017 at 11:56 pm
ACK!!! 😮
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April 27th, 2017 at 6:42 am
😏
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April 27th, 2017 at 2:27 am
A nice take Kat.
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April 27th, 2017 at 6:43 am
Thanks Kitty. 🙂
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April 28th, 2017 at 1:31 am
Welcome Kat 🙂
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April 27th, 2017 at 4:24 am
Oooh ! That’s creepy, one minute domestic daily life, then gone.
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April 27th, 2017 at 6:48 am
Thanks Francine. That photo screamed ghost story to me! 😀
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April 27th, 2017 at 4:51 am
Ooh, the beginning of a great horror story. Maybe the ghost teaches Mark a lesson.
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April 27th, 2017 at 6:51 am
…and I would say Pam is now a believer in old legends too! 😳
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April 27th, 2017 at 5:27 am
Eek, scary!!
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April 27th, 2017 at 6:51 am
Muhahaha! Love a twist! 😜
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April 27th, 2017 at 8:21 am
Me too
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April 27th, 2017 at 9:06 am
Good one. I can just see her freaking out. I used to do etchings with my Granny in graveyards. We kept a box with etching for each stone in the family. When she died, I cleaned out her house, and found the box had disappeared.
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April 27th, 2017 at 12:01 pm
Wow! Maybe she took them with her! 😉 I love spending time in graveyards and reading the tributes etched by family left behind.
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April 27th, 2017 at 3:15 pm
I think it’s more likely someone (namely one of my so-called aunts) stole it, like she did the antique sewing machine.
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April 27th, 2017 at 4:39 pm
Oh my. I have seen this drama play out before! 😪
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April 27th, 2017 at 9:47 am
Now I want to hear the rest.
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April 27th, 2017 at 11:16 am
That right, the guys always run first.🙂
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April 27th, 2017 at 11:59 am
Haha! SMH! 😜
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April 27th, 2017 at 1:39 pm
This is a story to freeze my marrow.
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April 27th, 2017 at 2:08 pm
Just as it frosted the landscape!
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April 27th, 2017 at 7:25 pm
He’s gone?! Where?! Where did he go? Geez! I want more! :o)
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April 27th, 2017 at 8:15 pm
Sorry! That’s all she wrote in 100 words or less! 😉
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April 28th, 2017 at 1:44 pm
Oh! A Marvelous ghost story! 🌹🌹🌹😎
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April 28th, 2017 at 2:42 pm
Ah! Another spooky tale. Don’t mess with ghosts! Ha Ha!
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April 28th, 2017 at 3:35 pm
Exactly! Haha!
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April 28th, 2017 at 9:53 pm
Shivers! Hope she escaped. And thus she learned from her assignment that some weird tales are true.
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April 28th, 2017 at 10:57 pm
I think that was the main lesson…some of those old legends have an element of truth in them. 😉
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May 1st, 2017 at 12:48 am
Well, she tried to warn him!
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May 1st, 2017 at 10:54 am
Yep! 😳
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May 1st, 2017 at 11:49 am
Nice creepy tale Kat. Sometimes those spooky legends are true…
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May 1st, 2017 at 12:49 pm
I believe you are right. 😊
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