The Ghost Writers
A Saeverse Storybook
You were a normal child, once.
At least, that's what all of the adults would say. This is a completely untrue fact. You figured that out long ago. You have never been normal. Your entire childhood was dotted with incidents that couldn't easily be explained by the modern understanding of science, and you were quickly labeled a freak by your peers. You would naturally try to shake off this label over the years, but it wasn't something that could simply be forgotten. Even switching schools or explaining it as a “weird childhood quirk” couldn't stop making you see them. And it's hard when they're so perfect at pretending to be normal.
There might be a few indicators – the too old clothing, the seemingly fatal injuries, or the general disconnect from modern things – but it's rarely enough for you to avoid speaking with them. And once you start speaking to people who simply aren't there, and start referring to conversations that only you were a part of, you end up regaining the title that you so frequently ran away from.
So you pretend.
You pretend you are just a writer, studying reactions to bizarre events in an effort to become more realistic in your stories. At some point, you end up falling in love with the idea of creating a world you can escape to. You write and you write and you write. And if you share your life in little typed words and words messily scrawled on the lines of old spiral notebooks, you're suddenly not abhorred. You're an expert storyteller and an amazing poet, and you're revered for it. Not by many, because it will always be the jocks that gain the majority of the high school fame.
But it's enough for you to be somewhat happy.
Now thoroughly in love with the craft of writing, you make a choice to join the school's new writing club. You mainly operate out of the creative writing class – a class few people enjoy, due to the dullness of its teacher. But someone else is in charge of the club. Another student, one you haven't ever seen in any of your classes, but one who assures you that she is, in fact, one of your peers. She just can't attend classes because of a very specific and rare ailment. Instead, she leads the club digitally, speaking through the computer monitor and appearing on the screen. Your history teacher, bizarrely enough, is the adviser of the club, but you don't question it. You need the escape, and you need to be in a place where you won't be judged.
Though you are completely ignorant of this fact when you arrive for the club's first meeting, you're not the only writer who can see. Your peers are just like you, and they have come to this club seeking an escape, just like you are.
But people see ghosts for a reason.
And you can't run from your fate any longer.
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