Challenge
Tea With Your Ghost
Write a story about someone having a meal with a loved one, then slowly reveal that the loved one is a ghost saying their last goodbye.
*Tea with my Ghost*
I turn the tiny ear
of the china cup
and saucer upon a
lazy heirloom dolly:
"Thank you,"
"How considerate,"
"Much obliged,"
"Shouldn'ta-"
a splash of bitters
in the invite rings
like an ambered
purification ritual;
I mop the console
and suggest, myself
another go round..?
Chin chin, porcelain,
Do, dearie really--
No, I must insist:
and turn the trolley,
just a single drop
of Life's rust is left
in this old carafe
I'm a-sharing, here in
the drawing room
where the curtains
will be closing
very soon
I know I've had
the better half
of the pairing,
rendering a
contestant
on the rise with
seamy likeness
in the mist, as I--
I fade away into
the darkening
pallor of my
own shadow
01.27.23
Tea With Your host Challenge
@HeartofaWolf
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