Phantom Touch
Written By: Sisi Burks
Edited By: Bazzle
Date Finished: Wednesday, August 30, 2023
For days now, the only thing in my stomach has been coffee and in my lungs was the smoke from my now endless cigarettes. A hard thing for me to say is, I can't face eating. This place spooks me out, that is an understatement, but it's not only creepy because of the way the cabinet doors open and close on their own nor how the lights continuously flicker on and off above me. It's because I know I am not alone, there is something here with me in this big empty house.
I don't believe in ghosts. Or at least, 72 hours ago I didn't. Before coming here for what was meant to be a quiet vacation alone so I could finish my latest novel. I couldn't believe what a bargain of a deal there was on this lake front property. It is tree lined with crystal clear water. It was practically a steal to rent for a couple weeks, I just had to snag it up the moment I found it online. I, of course, like any good buyer, ignored all the insane reviews from other guests that told stories right out of a horror movie about it. People who had left early, unable to stand it any longer.
Hogwash. That's what I thought. It was all just marketing like any other "haunted" location in this world was. Since I am sitting here, outside shivering and shaking on the back deck, writing this means I was wrong. I tried to ignore all the little signs, the sounds that came from nowhere in the middle of the day and dead of night. Even the figures drifting by that I would see in the corner of my eye. When I looked properly, had it only been that, I might have been able to go about my trip without much more than an uneasy feeling.
It properly started with what happened to me two nights ago, I knew for certain I was not alone. I haven't slept a wink since then, solely surviving on caffeine and nicotine and I don't think I'll be able to sleep for the rest of my fourteen day stay. I can't even think about how heavy my eyelids are, wishing I had match sticks to hold them up, I am worried about what could happen to me again in that unassuming state of sleep.
Actually before I get started on what exactly happened, which will make me sound insane, I should give a little introduction. My name is Mirandia Wilson, going by the pen name Randi, and I am a published writer of horror novels. I have got into the most gruesome of topics with my fictional writing but nothing compares to the experience of reality of what these beings are capable of. Strangely, it's hard to even call what happened to me scary, even though it very much was, as they say the truth is often stranger than fiction.
I'm a bookish woman, exactly what one would picture when thinking of a thirty something year old novelist. Overweight from my sedentary lifestyle sitting chained to my desk with a pack of chocolate cookies always nearby. My dull green eyes that have a pair of thick rimmed glasses are framed with bottle dyed black hair that reaches down to the middle of my back, and in front of me most of the time. To say the least, I am not the most attractive woman in the world but, apparently attractive enough for whatever this thing is.
Regarding the other night, everything seemed normal though there was that creepy edge I explained above. By bedtime, I had ignored it and thought nothing of the weird happenings around me. Determined to enjoy my vacation, haunted house or not. I stubbed out my last cigarette of the day, flipping on the bedroom television and turning down the sound to let me sleep. I thought the flashing images brightened up the room a little, figuring that would drown out any bumps in the night that might come. I had dressed myself in a big t-shirt and large pair of comfortable fresh cotton panties before I slipped into the king sized bed, feeling at ease and comfortable right away as I took my glasses off with the world now blurry, I laid down to enjoy whatever was on TV while I waited to slowly drift off to sleep. I was sadly only able to have my pleasant slumber for a couple hours before I was woken back up, not by a noise, but a feeling.
It was weird, I felt like there was something on top of me and grabbing my breasts through my top. Something cold. Once my blurry eyes adjusted to the dimly lit room I realized I had no blankets on anymore and I could not find them with my fingers either to pull it back over me. That feeling did not stop. Nothing that I could see seemed to be on top of me, but when I looked down to my big chest I could see what looked like the indent of fingers on my skin groping, squeezing my fat breasts. They even moved around with the feeling of the ghostly hands and I could watch and actually enjoy myself seemingly being felt up and turned on by nothing at all.