Kaatiba Writes
  • Home
  • Books
    • Legends of Mourra
    • Oracle
    • Rivener
  • Short Stories
    • The Queen, the Lion, and the Rings
    • A Net of Stars, Woven
    • The Peacock, The Crown, & The River
    • October Odds
  • Concepts
  • Poetry
  • Blog
  • Podcast
  • Editing
  • Contact

Prompt Fill: Condos of the Damned

8/2/2021

1 Comment

 
Picture
Photo by Jed Villejo on Unsplash
​'Condos of the Damned’. That’s what they should have called this place. Oh, it looked normal enough, if you were a normal person. Regular, newly built condo block, one of several that had popped up along the main street as the downtown core crawled its way further up the city. It had a marble lobby lit by a midcentury modern chandelier and recessed lights, decorated with a few plants in the corners. 

There was no security guard, because it wasn’t that upscale, but there was a code or fob key needed for the door. Regular trundling elevator that smelled either of wet dog or cigarette smoke or weed. Regular layout of apartments, varying between two and three bedrooms with a living room that flowed into a dining room and a kitchen with too little counter space but goodly amount of cupboards. Requisite amount of windows and balconies.

Like I said, normal place for normal people. 
​
But I’m not normal. I’m a medium, a real one, and when I looked at this condo, all I could see was the infestation of ghosts haunting the place. What’s worse, they were all on the verge of becoming poltergeists, the way ghosts that have been around too long tend to do. If something wasn’t done, this benign infestation of ghosts would upgrade into a horde of violent spirits.
​
And when they did…well then, every tenant would be damned.  
prompt #757 from awesomewritingprompts.tumblr.com 
1 Comment
Hyba link
7/7/2021 04:08:51 am

What a nice creepy little snippet! This makes me think of a medium who's just moved into the neighbourhood and likes to take walks to kind of vibe-check the place and make sure they know which places are Good To Go and which ones are Very Bad What Are You Doing Get Away and I love it! They see this place, and of course it's just a nightmare all over, and maybe something happens there - a death that can't be explained, or a murder that has no living culprit - and the medium turns supernatural investigator as they assemble a team to help them clear out this infestation that clearly needs to go. I'd read that!

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    Welcome to the blog!

    Featuring prompt fills, excerpts from my wips, posts about my writing process, and more.

    Make sure to subscribe to get updates delivered directly to you whenever new content is available!

    Categories

    All
    A To Z Aesthetics
    Book Review
    Cofm
    Excerpts
    Fairytale Retellings
    Fictober 2021
    Fictober 2022
    Glitch Wip
    Islam
    Lofm
    Oracle Wip
    Prompt Fills
    Q & A
    Reaper
    Relationships
    Research
    Rivener
    Updates
    Wip Intro
    Worldbuilding
    Writing
    Writing Process

    RSS Feed

Copyright © Sumayyah A.
​All rights reserved.
  • Home
  • Books
    • Legends of Mourra
    • Oracle
    • Rivener
  • Short Stories
    • The Queen, the Lion, and the Rings
    • A Net of Stars, Woven
    • The Peacock, The Crown, & The River
    • October Odds
  • Concepts
  • Poetry
  • Blog
  • Podcast
  • Editing
  • Contact