This topic is a fun one for me: it asks about your beliefs in the undead. I read lots of fantasy and watch plenty of sci-fi, but before I ever got into those genres, I was a sucker for a ghost story. I don't know what it is about the thing that goes bump in the night or what that scratching is behind the closet door, but it fascinates me. Even when that thing scares you, even when you know intellectually and in your gut that it's a Bad Thing and the Bad Thing will get you soon as you open the door, you push the fear aside and fling it open because you need to know, see with your own eyes what it is. Sometimes, I think fear is a magnet and it's drawn towards what's hidden in the shadows.
But does that translate to the real world? I mean, seriously, if even half of what happens in those spook stories were to happen in real life, nobody would be complaining about overpopulation.
Have I had encounters with the undead? Not at all. Met several over the years with stories, though: friends, classmates, a family member or two. Never a lot of people and I really only believe half of them have had experiences and the other half were either lying or duped.
So we're going to talk to a couple ladies who know more than me: May and June (who were neither born in May or June), a pair of sisters who claim to be experts on the subject.
JUNE: Not me. That would be May. She has all the books, the Tarot cards, glass ball, incense and that cute little fortuneteller's shop in that strip mall downtown. She has all those pretty fabrics, soft couches, and the like.
BRENT: So why are you here?
JUNE: I wanted to see my handiwork come together.
BRENT: ...what?
MAY: She's trying to hook us up.
JUNE: May! Not so forward.
MAY: It's the curse of people who've already been matched up. They have to stick their hands in and match everybody else up.
JUNE: It's not true. And besides, you two make a cute couple. You have so much in common.
MAY: Like what?
JUNE: You're both into ghosty stuff.
BRENT: Not really. I'm just trying to answer a question from a psychologist.
JUNE: So you're into psych stuff. And May is a psychic so it all works out!
BRENT: Are you really a psychic.
MAY: No, I just read folks like a book and take their money to make them feel good.
BRENT: Hope none of your customers read this blog.
MAY: With a blog your size, I don't think that'll be much of an issue. Besides, even if they did, I don't go by this name in my fortunetelling gig.
BRENT: So you don't believe in spirits.
MAY: I believe in money and money buys me spirits.
BRENT: Well, I think that's a wrap.
JUNE: Did you hear a "thump?"
MAY: I gotta get back to work.
JUNE: Here's her number. Give her a call!
BRENT: Right.
And that's how most of it seems to go. As soon as cash is on the table, all bets are off. My opinion, there are ghosts out there, I would not go out of my way to find them. I am not the type to sleep overnight in a haunted house, not because I believe it's haunted but because I'd rather sleep in my own bed. I only trust people who are not trying to make a buck when it comes to the supernatural. Even then, I use discretion. You never know when your friend is just an idiot.
What was that "thump?"
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