Ghost Stories

Experience the stories that compel you to keep turning the pages while reading this collection of eerie spine-tingling tales with lots of spookiness!

1 The Old Mansion
2 Some Soldiers Dream of Peace
3 Footsteps in the Dark
4 The House by the Cemetery
5 Anger
6 The Day Before Christmas

Acknowledgments


Last week, I found a collection of old stories I wrote in the 1990s. When I read them back, I decided to rewrite a few of them. I put them together into this novelette and sent it over to my editor, Virginia, whom I would like to thank for her hard work.

photo of Cynthia Fridsma

Some Soldiers Dream of Peace

It was as though the wind cried for mercy when the three friends crept across the battlefield late at night. They used the cover of darkness to flee the site where tons of souls had found their last destiny in the mud. A few were still alive and screaming, unaware of the fact that they were dying. Still struggling to hold on for just one more minute, thinking help would arrive. Just waiting in vain for medics who never came.
Many bones and skulls were buried in the mud, only to be exposed after a bombing. The smell of death and rotting bodies attracts insects and rats, the only winners of the great war.

It’s 1916. We’re witnessing three German soldiers who want to get away from the madness near Verdun in France.
This is a sad story about death and destruction that put France in an ironclad stalemate in 1916. This used to be a wooded area, but the trees were long gone, shattered by artillery fire.
British, French, and German troops dug into trenches, shooting their rifles and machine guns. It’s kill or be killed on this so-called field of honor. But why would anyone die for a bunch of stuffy old generals? They’re the ones who studied the maps of the surrounding area. The only thing that mattered to them was the body count.
It’s easy to imagine them congratulating each other. “Hey, we kicked ass! We won! Our enemies lost more soldiers. Yay!”
Without hesitation, they sent their soldiers to the next trench a few acres closer, even though they knew they’d lose it a day later. Their orders were “Shoot to kill.”

Ghost Stories

A collection of  short eerie spine-tingling tales with lots of spookiness!

Experience the stories that compel you to keep turning the pages while reading this collection of eerie spine-tingling tales with lots of spookiness!

1 The Old Mansion
2 Some Soldiers Dream of Peace
3 Footsteps in the Dark
4 The House by the Cemetery
5 Anger
6 The Day Before Christmas