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The Spectral Parade by SiriusDF

The Spectral Parade

SiriusDF

Supposedly, our affairs in life are neatly wrapped bows to be forgotten when we shuffle off this mortal coil. Yet, there are numerous stories regarding ghosts returning from Beyond to tie up loose ends. Oddly, the reasons are not major, but mundane.

More often, it's a dull litany of minor injustices, buried fortunes, wills, unpaid parking tickets or who forgot to buy this week's milk that seem to be on a ghost's To-Do list. It's enough to make one suspect the Afterlife bears a disturbing resemblance to a concourse at Newark airport with the Departed blearily waiting to take the red-eyed ghost night flight back to the living plane and attempt to get someone's attention.

Or worse, according to our canon myths regarding spirits, should sudden death strike while performing something stupid; that gets put on the Celestial spreadsheet under Do-it-over-till-you-get-it-right. It's no wonder our tales of things that go Bump in the Night are chocked full of winners to The Darwin Awards.

So in this vein, I bring forth the tale of The Dog Walker:

Lester by all accounts was a nice, but sometimes absent minded chap who liked walking his two dogs. One fateful day, a neighborhood cat ran before them. The dogs, being dogs, set off in pursuit. Still tied to their leashes, Lester was half dragged across the freshly asphalted street, and you can see this coming, right into the path of an oncoming giant Asphalt roller.

The slow moving vehicle had no brakes, resulting in cat, dogs and Lester becoming as flat as discarded chewing gum.

Since then, neighbors have reported spectral encounters while driving up that stretch of street late at night. In the headlights, they have told of braking abruptly and witnessing a parade of eerie beings racing across the street in front of the driver. A galloping skeletal phantom cat, followed by two ghostly dogs with leashes pulling behind a human skeleton presumably that of Lester.

Poor Lester, not only a victim of accident, but even in the Afterlife, he shares the fate of Dog Walkers in having to tag along with cat and dogs doing the same thing over and over till something is resolved.

The Universe is profoundly perverse.

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