Madame Bonair, great grandmother of the gypsies, wandered around her apartment berating her dearly departed spouse. There was no escape for him, not even in death. The idea! Thinking he could simply pass away and spend the rest of eternity haunting a strip bar or hovering around street corners, peering down women’s tops. If he was going to see any skin in the afterlife, it would be hers, or her name wasn’t Madame Bonair, which it was. So that settled it. The poor disembodied spirit had to accompany his sharp-tongued wife everywhere, even to the tedious séances she held. If only some visitors from beyond would pop in to hang out with him. But that never happened. Her spiritualist sittings were such a sham it made his protoplasmic blood boil, all the while wishing vehemently that he could evaporate. He observed his wife at the hocus pocus, the crystal ball she stroked so mysteriously, seeing nothing but a distortion of her own gnarly reflection; and that annoying, nasally-pitched voice spewing forth in her phony trance, the same voice that had nagged him all those years of his life and past his deceasement. Enough was enough! It made him so furious he’d lift up the table and hurl it across the room. But even in death he couldn’t win. All he achieved was a generous tip for Madame Bonair and an increase in her reputation as a mistress of mysticism.
Indeterminacy 258 (Madame Bonair)
This ghost story was originally posted at indeterminacy.blogspot.com, a site featuring “one minute short stories” inspired by found photos.
Here is the found photo which served as the catalyst for the story:
Disclaimer: This photo is not my work, and is therefore also not for sale.
Damian, 7 months ago
That poor ghost. He probably WAS hoping to get away in death. His next table needs to be aimed at her head (although then she’d probably be at his side for eternity LOL!)
indeterminacy, 7 months ago
I do wonder what he could have done to deserve his awful fate. And that would be some wicked poetic justice if your suggestion came about.