>>78376772Thanks bro, Merry Ghoulmas, kekek. Sign up for the mailing list if you haven't already.
>>78376597"Caaallooowaaaayyy~! I've cooooome for you Caaaalloooowaaaaaayyyy~!"
Colonel Calloway sat in his study alone, studying a decaying old book in his high-backed leather chair while enjoying a stiff scotch.
"Ooooohhoohhohhh~!" Phantasma raised her voice, rattling the length of ghostly chains she had brought along for effect.
"The ghosts in Dickens waited until midnight," Calloway observed, his eyes never looking up from the page he was reading.
"Yeah well they didn't have a curfew to keep!" Phantasma shot back with a huff. "So let's get this show rolling, okay? I'm the ghost of Christmas Past, yadda-yadda-yadda, let's explore your childhood and figure out why you hate Christmas."
Colonel Calloway at last closed his novel (which was, it turned out, and original edition of "A Christmas Carol" featuring the original unedited Scrooge shooting-spree ending later changed for the general release) and gave Phantasma his full attention.
"You are NOT the ghost of Christmas past, young lady. If such a spirit does exist I would have come across some mention of it outside of fiction. YOU are a dizzy C-student with more enthusiasm than good sense, and I fail to see how you even intended to follow through on your plan. I suppose you would take my hand and whisk me off through time and space to bombard me with visions of my past regrets? I'll save you time: I have none."
Phantasma was undeterred. "Okay, so I may not have any of those powers from the book..."
"But I got something better! EEeehhAHAHAHAH!"
While Phantasma cackled Calloway found himself flung back into his chair by an invisible force, iron manacles springing into existence around his wrists and ankles to lock him in place. When he looked up again Phantasma was floating in front of a pull-down screen and an old super-8 projector, a stack of film reels in her arms.
"Heehehaha! I've got your home movies!"
