Alarmingly Strange Stories
 

Falling
by
Roberto Martinez



"It's sad, really. They try so hard, but it never comes to anything."

"The people they're trying to communicate with, either don't put the clues together or they refuse to believe in ghosts." I added.

"Exactly," the professor added, he looked out the window where Allison was playing with his dog in the yard. "Only when they start accepting that we are something else, do they leave."

"You mean the blue flashes?"

"Yeah. I noticed that it always happens after someone accepts where and what we are."

"You don't seem to have a problem with it."

"There's something else. It appears we all have a purpose. First comes acceptance, then we have to find our purpose and accomplish the task. I think a lot of people just stumble on it and then they're gone. That's why the "ghosts" are such a sad group. They're so distracted with communicating with the other side, they never get to leave."

"It doesn't seem too bad here, why would anyone want to go?"


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