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Flash fiction. 100 words.
Louise & I by Heather Knight

Louise was my best friend growing up. Maybe my only friend. That's why I never understood why Mum didn't like her. She never even talked to her when she came home for a sleepover.

We were inseparable for years and then one day, when I was nine, I woke up and she was gone.

I looked for her for days. I moped around, I didn't want to eat.

'Mum, do you think Louise is sick?'


'No, love, I'm afraid she was never here. Not totally, at least.'

'What d'you mean?'

'Louise was a ghost, love. Children can see them sometimes ...'

     

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