Ghosts Next Door

Ghosts Next Door
by Lopaka Kapanui

Aug 17, 2018

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2018 #75

THINK OF LAURA


Laura didn't love herself because of her weight, but we loved her because she was funny and insightful.

Aug 16, 2018

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2018 #76

THROUGH AND THROUGH III CONCLUSION



Chelsea was still a bit dazed from the horrible nightmare she had the night before. She slept intermittently throughout the night and finally gave up sleeping altogether.

Aug 15, 2018

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2018 #77

THROUGH AND THROUGH PART II


Clement Mattina's murder was an outright message to anyone that had business with the Giordano family. There were no second chances once you slipped up

Aug 14, 2018

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2018 #78

THROUGH AND THROUGH PART 1


March 2017



Clement Mattina was a delivery boy for a national pizza chain for years and after seeing first hand how his former manager ran the store, he figured one day that he could open his own business and do pizza better, and he did.

Aug 13, 2018

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2018 #79

A TRUE STORY


1979


They were dressed in black dance leotards forming circles and numbers with their bodies. Every time I thought I had a proper count of them there would be more.

Aug 12, 2018

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2018 #80

THIS LIFE

(A conversation this morning with someone who wanted the gift of sight and all things spiritual)

ME: Most mornings if not all of them are filled with one normal occurrence and that is the sensation of someone playing with what's left of my hair.

Aug 11, 2018

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2018 #81

WAIWAI


She floats across the smooth tiled floor, a large bare space for her effortless steps to carry her back and forth and side to side.

Aug 9, 2018

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2018 #83

NO, LISTEN



We found our mini-bully in the middle of our front yard laying flat on her tummy with all four legs splayed out.

Aug 8, 2018

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2018 #84

REMEMBER BETH 


"I remember when you were a baby, and I always brought you to Sandy beach in the late afternoons so you could collect all kinds of different rocks and shells.

Aug 7, 2018

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2018 #85

ITHEACHAIN


It was one of those days when you have a schedule of things you need to follow but no matter what you do to keep to that schedule, you are interrupted at every turn.

Aug 6, 2018

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2018 #86

KEVIN AT THE CLUB


My ears were still ringing and I was pretty sure that I smelled like twenty different kinds of cigarette smoke brands and one kind of Tennessee whiskey after spending a few hours in that dive off of Fort street mall.

Aug 5, 2018

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2018 #87

MAYBE THIS TIME


“You don’t even have to love me,” she pleaded. “I can just be here for you whenever you need someone to be with you or to just hang out?