Ghostly Relatives

Ghostly Relatives

Lyra Mcken

What if every time you lost a relative they didn’t go away? This is what Stanley Brooks is dealing with.

His uncle haunts the downstairs bathroom and is always full of insults every time Stanley has to go down there. His crazy grandma stays in the kitchen rattling the pots and pans but never cooking anything, and his next door neighbors have no idea their house is haunted by a teenager who never left.

His life is just about as full as it can get and then he meets Chloe. She’s a nice girl he wants to get to know, but she can’t see the ghosts, and to make matters worse she has a ghost of her own. Her ex-boyfriend is refusing to believe that he is dead and he is determined to get her attention by any means necessary.  

“You think being a low level employee at that factory of lies is going to get you anywhere in life?”

Stanley Brook’s uncle was at it again. He hated when he had to come in the basement, but he needed to restock some of the supplies he was low on in the kitchen. The basement was the only place that had room for storage so he would have to take being in his uncle’s presence until he found what he needed. His uncle was always insulting him, and he had never forgiven the manufacturing company Stanley worked at for firing him. 

Granted he had been a drunk who never showed up for work and they were completely justified in getting rid of him. He had been angry about it until his unfortunate accident where he met the business end of a bus on a busy street.

He would never leave Stanley’s bathroom because he was dead, and stuck there. Stanley had no clue why his uncle haunted the bathroom but he assumed it was where he had spent most of his time when he was alive. 

As he finally pulled down a roll of paper towels and headed back upstairs he heard him yelling, 

“When are you replacing my playboys? Read the damn things at least twenty times.”