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The Wispy Spirit Waited

The Wispy Spirit Waited


He was sucked into the nasty Australian air 
purifier in the living room of 67 Oak Street, Elmwood. To him, that wasn’t at all fair!

For Halloween night, 
he’d planned to haunt the furrowed asleep. 
In the filter, with not much sight, 
he moaned, ‘I should’ve entered with a creep. 
I should've gone through the bathroom window 
or maybe through the bedroom window!'


So, he waited and waited 
and waited.

He couldn’t move a metre
He couldn’t move a centimetre. 

A week later, the owner emptied the filter out the 
window, and the spirit went into the 
mouth of a man-eater
who was a wife cheater.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2026

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