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RE: STACH Short Story Contest #19: 199 words, 5 winners, 15SBD prize pool!

in #writing7 years ago

It followed him everywhere he went, every time something good was about to happen for him, at verge of breakthrough, everything would go sour.
Initially he thought it was bad luck trailing him, but he was convinced by his friends that he was under a spell.

He had gone for countless numbers of job interviews, he was the best, the very best, graduating at the top of his class, but he never got the job.
It was as though he was being followed by the crying spirits of women.
During the interview sessions, after impressing the interviewers, something happens; he starts hearing voices of wailing women and children, the wailings drown the voices of the interviewers, so he doesn't hear what they're saying to him.
He shouts and screams like a mad man, covering his ears to block out the wailings.
Everytime this happens, security throws him out.

From city to city, he was always haunted by the wails and crys of the invisible women and children. No matter where he went, the screams and wails never stopped.

The atrocities from his pasts; aborted babies and girlfriends who died aborting and the ones murdered, would haunt him through life.