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  “ I am a witch and I wished you dead” whispered Lily as her eyes turned black.

  Sean and Rosie were almost frightened to their graves as Lily’s eyes and voice changed. A whirling wind spun as Mrs Cruelmonger opened the palms of her hands and lightning sparks poured in the air. The powerful elements pinned Sean to his chair as the purple ribbon fluttered in the atmosphere and bound his mouth tightly shut. Lily turned and smiled at the woman.

  “Yes, you are a witch my child and you decided to kill me on this very night. You took me from this Earth, a life you have removed and revenge will be sought as it is meant to be.”

  “You murdered Charlie Featherwick!”

  Horrifying shrieks filled the room as Rosie fought to get up but the old woman’s magic would not allow this to happen. The ghost chanted a spell under her breath and Lily still smiled.

  “A fate has been cast.”

  “You cannot hurt me, you have no control over me.”

  “So true my child. Let us see what your sister thinks.”

  Tears began to flow down Rosie’s cheeks as she started to whimper. Slowly, slash marks began to appear on the white clothing that Rosie wore and real blood started to run from her arms and legs.

  “Arrrghhhh… arrrrgghhhh… no…”

  “Stop, please don’t… don’t hurt her! Take me and I will go with you,” she cried.

  Suddenly, through the mist, the haunting figure of Charlie Featherwick appeared as real as he was in life.

  “Haha, he has come back to get you Mrs Cruelmonger, even in death you are not safe.”

  The spirit of Charlie Featherwick held a large, sharp butcher’s knife and in the bat of an eyelid he moved across the room with blinding speed. Grabbing her hair, he pulled back her head and sliced her throat clean from ear to ear. The blood spilled and tormented wailing filled the house. There was a deadly silence, which seemed to last forever as Rosie’s head fell and her limp body rolled off the chair onto the floor.

  “I didn’t kill Charlie Featherwick, it was your evil sister,” said the old woman as the storm fell calm and the ghostly figures disappeared back to their own worlds.

  From that day onward, the young girl was very careful and for the rest of her life was always watchful. Sean, never spoke a word again.

  The End

  © 2013 William O’Brien

  About The Authors

  Madhu Kalyan Mattaparthi

  Gujan Vyas

  Sheryl seal

  Alan Hardy

  William O'Brien

  Sonya C. Dodd

  Chris Raven

  DC Rogers

  Peter John

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  Gunjan Vyas

  Gunjan Vyas is a college student born on 20th August 1994, residing in New Delhi, India. She has interest in music, technology and works of fiction. She likes to write poems and short stories as a hobby. She also co owns a start-up company, Green Turtle Software Solutions which her friend started and suggests and supports new ideas

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  William O'Brien

  Living in a small village in Lancashire, England, William O'Brien has written his second book, Peter, Enchantment and Stardust. In the 1990s, the author had twenty-one articles published, both nationally and internationally. After gaining an honours degree in Geosciences, doing post-graduate study in Occupational Health and Fitness, and earning a masters degree in Science Communication, he developed an interest for simple communication. A passion for writing again emerged, and combining various interests in fine art, museum exhibition display, biology, geology, poetry, and the mystical led to the story of Peter: A Darkened Fairytale. The author still retains a childlike vision of the world, which is conveyed throughout his books.

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  Madhu Kalyan Mattaparthi

  Madhu Kalyan Mattaparthi is an IT professional from Hyderabad, India, born on 16th January 1989. He is a philanthropist, traveller and pursues writing as a hobby. Sensitive and observant, everything that happens around him is an inspiration to do something new. His knowledge in the world of technology has earned him appreciation and success and he now considers writing his new passion. He has worked in Google, India as a CEA and also the owner of a start-up company, Green Turtle Software Solutions.

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  Sheryl Seal

  Sheryl Seal, with her husband of 30 years lives in Greeley Hill, California, a gateway to Yosemite National Park. I write Paranormal/Fantasy and I am currently working on a series of ghost stories. With six children and six grandchildren life has been full of fairies, dragons, shape shifters, and a whole world full of magic where there's still hope for a new generation of young readers.

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  Alan Hardy

  Alan Hardy: I'm a Brit. Director of an English language school for foreign students. Married, with one daughter. Poet and novelist. Poetry pamphlets: Wasted Leaves, 1996; I Went With Her, 2007. Comic, bawdy novel GABRIELLA available on Amazon as Kindle e-book. Other novels, similarly disrespectful, surreal and shocking, on their way. Get ready for them.

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  Sonya Dodd

  Sonya C. Dodd lives in Norfolk, England with her husband and two sons. Although Sonya began writing in 1996, it wasn't until 2013 that she started to publish her work. A teacher, as well as a mother and writer, Sonya has a selection of novels and short story collections available.

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  Chris Raven

  Chris Raven is a forty-odd year old relative new comer to writing fiction who is currently experimenting with a number of different formats and genres, including short story and play writing. In the real world I earn my living in health and social care, and my published work to date has been non-fiction articles on the topic of mental health

  After a reasonably colourful life, I now live with my two wonderful daughters in my home town of Orpington, in Kent.

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  D C Rogers

  Author D C Rogers is a 31 year old man with ideas people say are great so he’s decided to write them down. Hailing from the deep dark valleys of Wales, where his first zombie based novel stems, he lives happily with his fiancée. Pretty new to the game of writing his style is fast and fresh, focusing on thrillers horrors and fantasy works. I just want to show you lot the chaos in my mind!

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  Peter John

  Peter John was born in Bromley Kent, England in 1973. He gained an interest in creative writing at the age of 14 and was published during the 1990s in several poetry anthologies. Happily Married to Jo since 1996 and currently living in Sidcup Kent, not so far from the tree.

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  Fancy a change of pace now you've got your breath back, and you've switched on all the lights? Watch out for Yuletide Tales from the same stable of writers. Gentler, sweeter, more sentimental...but still with a dash of the unexpected, the horrid, the ghostly...You have been warned.

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