Dying For Attention

[jaF0]

Think of flicks like the 1940s Topper series, Death Becomes Her, Always, Ghost, High Spirits, Beetlejuice and so many others.

One party (or more) dies and becomes the central figure. Sometimes serious, but often comedic to some level.


Is there enough here for a Challenge?

 

[Hypoxia]

My Ghost of a Chance was inspired by Topper; and episodes in A Taste of Incest (Spirits) involve ghostly fuckers, usually deceased family. Spirit-fucking works best IMHO if the ghosts materialize but they can screw with just minds, too, keeping it ethereal. I haven't yet tried ghosts from the future. There's a plot kitty for ya!

 

[CuttingEdge]

I wrote a ghost story...

It was about a college woman who came home to her small town and had sex in the attic with her boyfriend. As he slept off the afterglow, she found an old bureau and discovered a hidden drawer and the diary of her great, great grandmother who was hanged as a witch.

The backstory was, she was having an affair with the regions judge and he had her hung as a witch because he got her pregnant with his child and wanted no one (including his wife to know).

The young granddaughter ran out of the attic down to her grandmothers headstone when the ghost of her grandmother appeared. She told her granddaughter to finally take revenge on the family for her murder/hanging because her boyfriend was a descendant of the judge. She had no idea how to get revenge until the wind of the departing ghost kicked up a flier ripped off a light pole that read, "Abortion is Murder".

The granddaughter then realizes the unprotected sex she just had with her boyfriend is intermingling now with her eggs, making her pregnant with her boyfriends child. It ends there, with sort of a cliffhanger: does she abort the baby or not out of family revenge?

 

[sirhugs]

Neither of my stories that are built around unnatural death did well. One is literally called Cliffhanger.. It was an effort to do something differennt in the old Earth Day contest.

The other was done as part of a challenge. It proved to be too exotic for readers.

 

[Hypoxia]

Gal or guy gets fucked to death but their conscious spirit doesn't realize their demise until later, when they find they can walk through wall to bed whomever they wish. Does the ghost-guy sire ghastly offspring? Does the ghost-gal turn her post-mortem fuckers gay or asexual? Do sentient ghosts work to fuck-to-death their humans so they'll have more spiritual companions?

Are animal ghosts exclude because of LIT rules? Make the pet ghosts sentient and quasi-bestiality might pass here. But no underage ghosts, even after 150 years.

 

[sirhugs]

Gal or guy gets fucked to death but their conscious spirit doesn't realize their demise until later, when they find they can walk through wall to bed whomever they wish. Does the ghost-guy sire ghastly offspring? Does the ghost-gal turn her post-mortem fuckers gay or asexual? Do sentient ghosts work to fuck-to-death their humans so they'll have more spiritual companions?

Are animal ghosts exclude because of LIT rules? Make the pet ghosts sentient and quasi-bestiality might pass here. But no underage ghosts, even after 150 years.

unless the ghost ages after death?

 

[Hypoxia]

unless the ghost ages after death?

They would be rather frightening after 150 years. Not really seductive. But I'm reminded of a cathedral displaying the adult skeleton of St James beside the wee little skeleton of St James as an infant.

 

[sirhugs]

unless the ghost ages after death?

They would be rather frightening after 150 years. Not really seductive. But I'm reminded of a cathedral displaying the adult skeleton of St James beside the wee little skeleton of St James as an infant.

the nice thing about fantasy is we can make up our own rules. Like " Dead youths age to be 25 but then their appearance does not change."

 

[Hypoxia]

the nice thing about fantasy is we can make up our own rules. Like " Dead youths age to be 25 but then their appearance does not change."

Or: Appearance-wise, ghosts age at a different rate than pre-ghosts i.e. live humans, say 25:1. A prepubescent kid dies at 12, so 150 years later they look to be 18, a whole 6 years older, okay by LIT rules.

But how can a ghost mature emotionally over time? How interesting are the aged ghosts of miscarried embryos who have never experienced real-world life? 500 years after the miscarriage, the fetal ghost looks 20 but has never even nursed, let alone played or spoken. Bo-ring...

And an older deceased, many years later, appears to possess mature wisdom, but mentally they're still a hormone-driven youth. Horny old ghosts, ewww...

 

[sirhugs]

unless the ghost ages after death?

Or: Appearance-wise, ghosts age at a different rate than pre-ghosts i.e. live humans, say 25:1. A prepubescent kid dies at 12, so 150 years later they look to be 18, a whole 6 years older, okay by LIT rules.

But how can a ghost mature emotionally over time? How interesting are the aged ghosts of miscarried embryos who have never experienced real-world life? 500 years after the miscarriage, the fetal ghost looks 20 but has never even nursed, let alone played or spoken. Bo-ring...

And an older deceased, many years later, appears to possess mature wisdom, but mentally they're still a hormone-driven youth. Horny old ghosts, ewww...

they mature by watching the other residents. Which is why ghosts stuck in haunted houses alone remain immature and act childish.

 

[Hypoxia]

Plot bunny: A devious youngish couple, Fred and Wilma, work up a scam. They buy Fred a huge life insurance policy. He feigns catalepsy, is declared dead, and Wilma collects big-time. She digs him up, they move elsewhere, and repeat the scan. What could go wrong?

 

[sirhugs]

Plot bunny: A devious youngish couple, Fred and Wilma, work up a scam. They buy Fred a huge life insurance policy. He feigns catalepsy, is declared dead, and Wilma collects big-time. She digs him up, they move elsewhere, and repeat the scan. What could go wrong?

Wilma falls for Barney the undertaker, they decide not to dig up Fred?

 

[Hypoxia]

Wilma falls for Barney the undertaker, they decide not to dig up Fred?

As I asked, "What could go wrong?" But then the cashflow is cut off. No, better to keep reviving and exploiting Fred for profit. A dead Fred ain't worth shit except to organleggers.

 

[jaF0]

So, do we put this up for a Challenge?


Weekend at Berniece's?

 

[Hypoxia]

Weekend at Berniece's?

With ghosts (of relatives?) from the future and their most unsettling prophesies. Set the tale just before 2000, when the world obsessed over the Y2K bug, with a spirit who died of COVID in 2022, telling Bereniece and her naked guests to expect endless war, President Tromp, and a pandemic. Nope, that would be an arousal-killer.

 

[sirhugs]

With ghosts (of relatives?) from the future and their most unsettling prophesies. Set the tale just before 2000, when the world obsessed over the Y2K bug, with a spirit who died of COVID in 2022, telling Bereniece and her naked guests to expect endless war, President Tromp, and a pandemic. Nope, that would be an arousal-killer.

no one in 1999 would believe that Trump could be president.

 

[Hypoxia]

no one in 1999 would believe that Trump could be president.

Nobody in 1999 would believe in Jeff Bezos or Lady Gaga, either. Life surprises.

 

[sirhugs]

Nobody in 1999 would believe in Jeff Bezos or Lady Gaga, either. Life surprises.

Are you proposing a Jeff Bezos/Lady Gaga hook up story?

 

[Hypoxia]

Are you proposing a Jeff Bezos/Lady Gaga hook up story?

As with pr0n featuring any members of the last president's family, a tale involving Bezos would be a sure-fired arousal killer. [/me shudders]

 

[sirhugs]

As with pr0n featuring any members of the last president's family, a tale involving Bezos would be a sure-fired arousal killer. [/me shudders]

some might say the same of Lady Gaga.