Ellen told herself she wasn't becoming attached.
She didn't like Alysia - not at all.
Alysia, she said to herself after she'd left the girl to sleep, was just another Living Person who couldn't understand.
(Oh, what was she kidding?)
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Ellen went back to Alysia the next morning.
She trailed her to school, listening the the girl's fountain of words and rambling sentences. She kept note of the group of girls she avoided and the locker she stopped at to dig out her things.
She avoided any water.
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"Are you scared of ghosts?" Asked Ellen one day.
"No." Replied Alysia.
(Her waterbottle was at the far side of the table)
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Ellen felt solid.
She wanted to push Alysia into the sink.
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(We pretend that this is intended to be the story of two friends, a ghost and a girl, who attach themselves to each other against all odds)
(It isn't)
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Water's Edge ✔️
Paranormal"Don't go near the water." Thirty years ago, teenager Ellen Harper fell prey to the roiling rapids of her town's only river. And yet still she roams the sight of her passing, neither dead nor alive. "Don't listen to the whispers." Played off as a t...
