You wake to find a figure lurking by the door. You blink and look again and it is still there. You squeeze your eyelids tight and then refocus and try to force the ghostly form into something commonplace. And at last you do. With relief you realise that it is not a ghost but your winter dressing gown hanging on the back of the door.
One night I woke to see a luminous figure standing at the end of my bed. I blinked and tried to refocus a number of times but it refused to transform into something mundane. It remained steadfast, a glowing apparition in the form of a woman standing at the end of my bed where dressing gowns do not hang.
Oddly I did not feel any fear.
Was this my guardian angel?
No. I don’t believe in such things. The idea that someone or something is stalking you and watching your every move is downright creepy.
No thanks. I can do without that sort of intense scrutiny.
So I decided that it could be the ghost of my great grandmother who had decided to take a quick visit to Earth to see how her great granddaughter had turned out.
She had died long before I was born but I knew about her because my mother had loved her dearly and told me about her.
Yes, I decided. That is who it is.
So I took one last look then pulled the blankets over my head, willing dawn to arrive.
Michelle 2008©
Michelle 2008©
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