Email pings.
Video.
“Watch this.”
Dark things.
Dark well.
Dark girl.
Welcome to hell.
Your new world.
Video ends.
Phone rings.
“Seven days,” voice sings
“Sorry, am already dead, Samara.”
“Curse you, Kayako.”
Ghost wins.
Runs rings round cursed kid.
Cross—fight—over.
When you’re living through a recent fave music video (Seagulls) whose verses have been revised to incorporate a vengeful spirit (Kayako from The Grudge (this sequence from the sequel is a particular favourite of mine)), it’s pretty likely that you’re going to get freaked out. It was such a fun dream until I inadvertently reenacted this classic scene (content warning) and turned it into a nightmare, though in a novel twist she crawled up the stairs rather than down…
Never a dull moment in my head!
[Edit: I’ve just published this on Thursday 27th April, but WordPress seems to think it was published four days ago, when I wrote the draft… very odd. Hence the incorrect numbering, it’s not me honest!]
My name is Skylance 