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A Girl Can Dream

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If I could choose

what character I would want to be

from my favorite, movie, book ( or song )

I would want to be the shadow on the wall

the monster under the bed

the thing in the closet

the bones stashed in a trunk, sealed with chain and barbed wire, hidden in the attic

I would want to be the corpse in the basement, buried under stale and sour earth.

If I could choose

what character I would want to be

from my favorite, movie, book ( or song )

I would want to be that thing that makes your skin crawl.

Poor Old Alexander Armsworth

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WordPress Prompt: What book could you read over and over again?

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 I started to read books by Richard Peck when I was around 11 years old. I had been writing for about 2 years at the time  and I loved….ADORED ghost stories so when I won ” The Ghost Belonged To Me ” in my classes weekly spelling test challange, I was thrilled with my prize on a serveral levels.

FIrst of all it was a ghost story and in that story was the ghost of a girl and a her ghost dog ( plus) the main character ( Alexander ) had an Uncle who told him stories about a premature burial, a suicide that took place in the family’s sitting room and at the end Alexander and his Uncle and Blossom ( who I will get to in a minute ) all end up in New Orleans in Cemetery #1 where they reinter the bones of the Ghost Girl and her dog together.

I kept reading the adventures of Alexander and Blossom as I got older – but plot twist- it turned out Blossom Culp ended up capturing the series from Alexander who was the main characater at the onset of the story.

From the start, even though Alexander could see ghosts ( in fact, in the first book Blossom was just a girl with a sense of adventure ) Blossom had more meat on  the bones of her story.

Blossom and her Mom lived in a shack near the railroad tracks and raided their neighbors gardens for food and Alexander’s family was well to do.

In one chapter Alexander talks about being served his bacon and eggs breakfast  by the family’s help that Alexander’s mother refered to as ‘the servant’.  The servant replies that the help weren’t refered to as servants where we ALL come from – so you kind of get the hint that Alexander’s Mom is well off now, but she probably wasn’t before she got married- and she married well.

Blossom had an apple and a nickel for milk for her breakfast.

Blossom’s Mom was a Gypsy Fortune Teller who helped the police by communicating with the Jane and John Does- who it was explained were decapidated at the morgue, their heads were placed in jars of formaldahyde and kept in a speacial room for ID because there wasn’t any other way to store them. Did I mention Blossom could talk to the dead? Well she could though she always felt her powers weren’t up to par with her Mom’s- only because Blossom was never sure if her Mom ever reached her full potential ( which is sort of a statement on poverty when you think about it ).

These are great books, they aren’t meant to be read once and set aside. Pick one, read it and see if you agree.

The Dreadful Future of Blossom Culp

The Dreadful Future of Blossom Culp

by Richard Peck
Book 4
Blossom Culp and the Sleep of Death

Blossom Culp and the Sleep of Death

by Richard Peck
I can pick up any of these four books and re-read them at any time ( though I like to do that during the winter ) and if you want to read a good story set aside the fact these are for ‘ young adult ‘ readers. A good ghost story is a good ghost story and these stories are pretty darn good.

A Girl, A Demon and A Semetery Cat

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WP Prompt asks us: If you could be a character from a book or film, who would you be? Why?

It would be easy to jump into the skin of the one of the many, many characters that I love from books like Blossom Culp from ” Ghosts I Have Been ” or the demon that you see briefly in  the film ” The Exorcist ” but those would be an easy answers because both of the characters I mentioned are human- or at least one looks human-ish. Its not like I had to think hard  to come up with those answers.

For example:

Blossom and Pazuzu have two things in common- they sail into one adventure ( or human body ) without a second thought and just when you think you’ve got them down they get back up and win the day. They are both fight against the limits imposed upon them and lets face it- a girl who can talk to the ghost of a woman who hung herself in the kitchen and saves the poor tormented ghost and a demon who fights ( like Hell ) to make themselves heard are my kind of heroes. The frosting on the cupcake here is this- in Both Blossom and Pazuzu scare the people around them- no matter how hard they try to be brave Blossom and Pazuzu make their time count.

The demon Pazuzu as it briefly appears in 1973’s The Exorcist and it’s real life counterpart

But you know the saying- go big or go home, so if I could be one character to be it would have to be ” Church ” from Pet Semetery.

” Church”
Pet Semetery 2019

I like the idea of Church- he gets hauled off to the Pet Semetery after he’s hit by  a car by the Father of his ower and what comes back isn’t Church. It’s something else but that something else has it in for Louis Creed and you can’t help but to feel that a little of that malice that fueled the  Cat that came back from the Pet Semetery belonged to the real Church.

That goes to show you that you can try to take the Cat out of  body but Hell or high water it will find it’s way back in again-

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