The Spooky Scary Haunted Sex Motel
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He walked into the small office. It would be an overstatement to call it a lobby.
The man inside looked up. "You're lucky. I was about to turn on the No Vacancy light and go to bed. I got just the one room left."
"Been a few years since I traveled these parts. Price kinda went up." It was a 1940s-style of roadside lodging with only six units, looking in dire need of refurbishing.
"It is what it is. Cost of living went up. Gotta cover expenses. Which way you headed?"
"North."
"Well, you ain't gonna find anything still open 'tween here and Lone Cedar. Maybe not even there. But I'm not trying to take advantage of you at this hour. It's the same rate I charged the others"
The scrawny, dark-haired and scraggly-bearded dude with the tattoos shook his head as though saying no, then immediately contradicted himself. "Fine. Got a long way to go yet. Need some rest."
"Gotta warn ya, though. They say the room is haunted."
"That so?" He pulled out his wallet and extracted some bills.
The portly man behind the counter nodded. "Woman was killed, six years ago. Died, anyway. Never did find out the cause of death. Coroner performed an autopsy, couldn't figure anything out. She just basically died. Too young for a heart attack - she didn't suffocate - no marks. Her heart simply stopped beating. The sheriff looked into the matter, couldn't find any evidence. All the guests they could locate were cleared. All but one, that is. One guy - he signed in with a fake name -- Ronald Reagan -- no way to track him down. Left it at that. You ask me, out here in the middle of nowhere, they don't try too hard. When it's someone like her."
"Tomorrow's Halloween. You trying to tell me a ghost story? A tall tale?"
"I'm just sayin'. She died on a Halloween. I guess technically, when it turns midnight, it's the anniversary."
"Woo. Good thing it's not a full moon. I'm real scared." The young man began filling out the short registration card, clearly not scared.
"Debbie don't do nothin' scary."
"Debbie."
"Yeah, that was her name. Real cute young woman apparently. When she makes an appearance, once a year, I'm told she tries to get friendly with whoever's in the room."
"Friendly." By repeating the older man's words, he implied a desire for more specifics.
"Yeah, friendly. Real friendly. You know what I mean. Nobody says much about it afterward. But apparently nothing too weird. The most anybody told me is - one guy said - she gave him a handie."
"A handie?"
"You know. A hand job."
"Hand job?"
The proprietor stared at him. "Are you stupid? She jerked him off, I'm saying. 'Cause, more than likely, she was a hooker. When she was living."
"A friendly ghost. Gave him sex. On Halloween."
"I mean, he didn't say it quite like that, but otherwise it don't make no sense."
"Sounds like he jerked himself off and then told you a tale."
"He said it was her ghost."
"He did? Well, I don't believe in ghosts."
"I didn't used to neither. But now I keep more of an open mind." He handed the man the room key.
"Whatever. Gotta ramble, early in the morning. Time for some shut-eye."
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He woke up when he felt the warmth of another body behind him on the bed. There wasn't even the glow of the alarm clock's display, nor the hum of the baseboard heater -- the electric power was apparently off now. In the moonless night, the room was pitch black. The time was only a guess but was probably after midnight.
"How'd you get in here?" he asked calmly, rolling over onto his back.
"Shhh," the female voice said quietly but firmly. "Don't move. Here, let me put this on."
He felt an elastic band being slid down the top of his head and over his eyes. "What difference does being blindfolded make in the dark like this?"
"Shhh. Don't talk, or I'll leave."
"Mmmm," he grunted, as he now detected a hand slipping under the elastic of his boxer shorts.
"Does this feel good?"