Danny's Ghosts: A Narrative Fiction

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She refused. But as the world had it, her worst fears were ultimately confirmed by ten petrifying words. “I guess there's no need to dispose of it now.” Maddie's voice held near to no emotion. “Such a shame that it died off so quickly.” Danny was actually... dead. And it was her fault for failing him. Her parents had done the unthinkable, and she had just – just.... How was she expected to come back from this? Danny couldn't be dead. It was a lie. Her parents had only thought they had killed him, right? Danny was strong. Danny bounced back. Danny was always there for here. But she had failed him and that's all that was real because everything had just happened and his blood was on the floor and guts in jars, and oh my God they had killed him he was dead dead dead dead gone away forever unreachable- …show more content…
“It was truly something different for a ghost. Such a shame that it had to be Danny. But, it seems that maybe Jazz was right. It was at least partially alive. Still, nothing but a nasty ghost in the head, though. Irredeemable,” he reflected. They were killers. How could they admit that Danny wasn't all ghost, but still assume that he wasn't human? They were ignorant, foolish, disgusting, and they should both go to Hell. Maddie sighed, “If only there was an ethical way to replicate a suitable specimen. We should've preserved our study longer, but we were too hellbent on exacting revenge for how it pretended to be normal for so long.” “Yeah.” Jack agreed. “The only way we would be able to safely create another specimen would to create a new ghost around someone with a similar genetic makeup to

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