“It happened again.”
“What?”
“The door.”
….?
“The door of the laundry room.”
….
*Sigh* “It hit me on the way out again.”
“Oh…” “Well…” “It’s just a door.”
“It doesn’t hit me every time.”
“Huh.”
“I’m serious!”
“I know! -Look, maybe you’re just jumping to conclusions.”
….
“Like, you know, that… say, air currents from a different door or whatever sometimes close that one.”
“On me.”
“…Yeah.”
“Never on you.”
“…Yeah.”
“Never on anyone else.”
“Yeah!”
“And only when I start a load at midnight.”
“Yeah! -wait; why are you starting laundry at -”
“And only when I can also hear whispering…”
Inspired by my own laundry room experiences for Carrot Ranch‘s prompt: someone unremembered.
September 26, 2019, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story about someone unremembered. Is it a momentary lapse or a loss in time? Play with the tone — make it funny, moving, or eerie. Go where the prompt leads you!
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Chel Owens 
Oh yes the midnight load. Just set one off now at 11.40pm. Soul destroying.
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😀 I was thinking “haunted,” but that works, too.
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Spooky!
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Thanks!
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so… did you remember the soap??
How about the fabric conditioner? 🙂
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You don’t wanna know what’s in the fabric conditioner!
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😳
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That could cure me from doing laundry! Especially the whispering, chilling!
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😀 I need no whispering to cure me from doing laundry.
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Ohhh Myyyy
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Boo!
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When you have a young family you do chores whenever you can! But forgetting the soap just means you might have wet but not clean laundry! I remember as a child, once I was in bed I even disliked getting up after everyone was asleep to use the loo… I think though after about 30 years in the same place I can go anywhere anytime in my home 😉
Ghosts can be helpful too 😉 Fun take!
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I’m not sure I could write a scary bathroom story! I often get scared at night in there even as an adult!
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A spider in the shower? – I think Charli had one of those…
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Spiders aren’t so bad to me. 🙂 Ghosts, now; that’s a different story.
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There are folks who seem to be more tuned into different phenomenon. I think when I was a teen we had a poltergeist – that or like the one comic all the blame falls to Ida Know and Not Me…
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This is really creepy, Chelsea
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Coming from you, Madame Writer, this is a compliment.
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Thank you, Chelsea
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