Eleven New Ghost Stories by David Paul Nixon

Author:David Paul Nixon
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: ghost stories, horror, true ghost stories, supernatural, gothic, suspense, short stories, nixon
Publisher: David Paul Nixon
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Here goes…

It was five or six years ago. We’d moved into this new house in Letchworth – me and Peter, and Benjamin. He was such a happy boy; so bright and so sweet. He had these big, wide open eyes, bright blue eyes, and this cheeky, enigmatic little smile.

He was only about three or four when we moved. Those were the happiest times of my life. After the difficult first few years of looking after him and struggling with money and work, everything was finally coming together. We were stable, we could afford things – the house, the car – Benjamin didn’t need quite as much looking after. Things were so much easier.

You see, I’d been determined to keep up with my work after I gave birth. I wanted to do it, but also because we thought we’d struggle without the money. It was hard to work while Benjamin was little. But then Peter started to become more known, and his income helped to keep us afloat.

But then he recorded that album. It did so well. It changed his life; it changed all our lives. Suddenly we weren’t always living on the bread line. We could afford to enjoy life more. We could afford to go away. We could afford a mortgage.

Everything was so perfect, for a time. Benjamin had been such a handful growing up; he was always so hyperactive – he got that from Peter; he could never stay still either. It had been such a struggle getting it all balanced before. When Peter had his breakthrough it was when we were getting Benjamin ready to start school. We moved closer to the school we wanted for him, we could afford the fees and I could spend more time working. But more than that, I went back to painting; painting just for me. Just enjoying painting without any deadlines or clients or commissions. We all had our space, things were just… right.

Peter’s career was going so well that anything seemed possible. We had holidays in the south of France, Italy, and Florida for Disney World for Ben. But success meant more work. Peter became very much in demand. Which was good, for a while…

The hours were long. You know what artists can be like; musicians even worse. Drunks, crack-addicts, hooligans, even schizophrenics. He was selective at first, but sometimes he was pressured into working with people he didn’t want to. It’s the freelancer’s curse: no matter how hard you work, you’re always terrified it could dry up at any time.

The late nights and hours were only half the problem. A lot of these kid bands they liked to imitate; they liked to ‘pay tribute’ to those who came before. Or copy, if you like. So they wanted to record abroad, at the Berlin studios were Bowie and Eno did Low, at Sun Studios where Elvis, Dylan Cash and Carl Perkins played. And he wanted to go too; why wouldn’t he want to work at some of

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