The Ghost Who Tried to Love Me by Adam Tervort

Author:Adam Tervort
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: chinese, ghost story, taiwan, zodiac, ghost month
Publisher: Adam Tervort

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Ghost Month starts with people all over the city burning gold money and leaving fruit and burning incense out on table near the road. The first omen that bad things were afoot came the morning of the first day. I was riding my scooter down a main road on my way to class when a fat old shopkeeper dumped an armful of money into his burning bin just as I rode by. The wind was just right, blowing towards me, and the flames lept up and burned my leg. The shopkeeper felt really bad and took me to a clinic. I came away with singed pants, a second degree burn on my leg, and a prescription of thick green goop to apply to the burn three times a day. I missed my morning class and the boss of the school I taught at in the mornings told me to take the rest of the day off. It was Friday and a three-day weekend sounded nice, so I cancelled the afternoon classes at my school and went home to rest.

I slept through the afternoon and into the evening. Brenda called to tell me she was exhausted from teaching alone during the afternoon, she wouldn't be coming over. I hobbled around the apartment for a while and fixed some dinner, then decided I'd watch a movie and head back to bed. HBO was showing "The Exorcist" in honor of the beginning of Ghost Month, and it scared me. When it ended I got ready for bed, images of the little girl's head spinning around on her neck floating through my mind.

I had only been asleep for a little while when something made come full awake. The room became frigid and I could feel something on my leg. I looked down, I had kicked the covers off because of the heat, and saw a line of goosebumps popping up on my thigh. It looked like someone was drawing a line on my skin with a piece of ice, but there was nothing there. When I moved my leg the cold air whooshed out of the room and I was back in the heat of the August night. The goosebumps settled down and I wondered in my grogginess what in the world had been touching me. The rest of the night I had nightmares of "The Exorcist."

The next night I was wary when I went to bed, it had been a very strange day. Brenda listened to my story about the night before and decided I needed professional help. She took me to a local temple to see if the master could tell me what was wrong. We were part of a huge group of people waiting to see the master for "ghost decontamination," all of the people there had been frightened by ghosts in the night and wanted a special poultice made to calm them down. When it was our turn the master took one look at me and said "You have a ghost following you.

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