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Chilling tales for Twitter and beyond. Pull the Thread and see what unravels. By @PaulRigbyWrites.
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Dec 13, 2019 • 17 tweets • 6 min read
Black Magic - a Christmas Ghost Story

There was nothing scary about our house
Unless you find brown and orange geometric wallpaper scary, which nobody did then, for some reason
It was a perfectly normal semi on a perfectly normal street
Too young for memories
Too new for ghosts ‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring . .
Apart from me.
No sugar plums in my head, instead visions of Action Men, Scalextric cars and Buck-a-Roos danced before my wide, restless eyes.
And so I was the only one to hear it . . .
Oct 31, 2019 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE - a Twitter Tale for Halloween
(Follow the thread . . .)

She sat in her usual coffee shop.
At her usual table.
At the usual time.
But something was different . . . She glanced around the cafe.
The steamer steamed, the babies screamed, the red-faced, fat-fingered woman stabbed angrily at her laptop.
Everything exactly the same as every other day.
Except for one thing.
The large, dark-haired man sitting on the other side of her table.
Jan 1, 2019 • 33 tweets • 8 min read
Day 1

Happy New Year!
Time to get up and begin your journey to a new you!

He stared at his wrist through shocked, bloodstained eyes.
5:00
Was that even a time?
He yawned, took a deep breath and rolled over, back to sleep . . .

‘I SAID GET UP!!!’ Day 2

Yesterday’s steps: 7,891
Not good enough!
Today’s target: 10,000

Not good enough?
It was 6,000 more than usual - and hungover!
Talking of which . . .
Jake reached under the bed and shakily poured himself a liquid breakfast.

“NO ALCOHOL!”

The glass shattered in his hand
Dec 1, 2018 • 60 tweets • 17 min read
ADVENT - A Christmas Ghost Story from Dec 1 to Dec 24

Dec 1

WTF?
Where’s the chocolate? Just a picture of a dumb bird!
What kind of advent calendar hasn’t got chocolate in it?
Can’t believe I’m stuck here all Xmas in the middle of nowhere while you get to go to Darren’s party! Sophie slept
In spite of the house
In spite of herself
In spite of the spitting, chattering rain against the thin black ugly window pane
It was strangely soothing
Strangely calming . . .

Until a sharp
Sudden
Angry
CRACK
Smacked her furiously awake!
Oct 31, 2018 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
THE DELIVERY - a Twitter Tale for Halloween
(Just follow the thread . .)

Your Driver is 4 Stops Away

I blink at the tiny, blurred letters dancing around my phone screen.
Then at the map below.
Then at the empty vodka bottle below that.
Oh crap, what have I bought this time? BANGBANGBANG
“What?” I cry “I haven’t got the TV on! I haven’t even got the bloody toaster on!”
The banging stops.
Outside my head at least.
I slip off the sofa and stumble to the kitchen where I wash down a palmful of pills with a small glass of water and a large glass of whisky