Stories from the Calindratem

Amber felt uneasy as she drove up the serpentines. The hotel was very isolated and with the grey sky and the heavy wind the castle which housed the hotel was less romantic than it was creepy.  It had sounded like such a good idea, when her agent had suggested it: Spend a week in a remote Irish castle to finish editing her book. She had thought the surroundings were going to be inspiring and the lack of distractions was going to keep her focused. Now after a 3 hour flight and a 2 hour drive, on what was the wrong side of the road for her, she simply felt annoyed. She would have to take the car even if she wanted to get a coffee in the nearby village. Apparently the castle or hotel provided a full board but since it was the off season and she wondered if there were going to be a lot of other guests and full staff.   She stopped the car at the parking and sighed, remaining seated for a moment. She grabbed her purse, her laptop bag and her wobbly old suitcase and made her way...

Those following my blog and my original writing can tell I love a good ghost story. In fact it was when writing a ghost story for school at the age of 12, when I fell in love with writing. I was therefore delighted when "The Haunting of Bly Manor" appeared on my Netflix suggestions.  "The Haunting of Bly Manor" is basically the second season of an anthology (simply "The Haunting"), whose first season is "The Haunting of Hill House" but since both seasons are completely independent when it comes to the story, this review will threat "The Haunting of Bly Manor" as an independent miniseries.  It starts at an engagement party for a young couple and in the evening they start talking about ghost stories. One of the guests tells a story. A young woman named Dani is hired as a nanny for two children by their uncle. The children live in an old manor somewhere in England and the only other staff are a house keeper, a gardener and a cook, none of ...

This is a story I wrote for a different blog using free writing. I am happy with the result and to write this way was an interesting experience that helped me dive into it in a whole new way. I hope you enjoy it! This is just brilliant! thought Phoebe sarcastically having already accepted that she would get wet. She had been doing her tax declaration for 3 days and the deadline was tomorrow, so she had to finish it no matter what. Being a freelance musician this was always a pain in the ass. It had been about 1.30 am when she had decided to take a break and get some indian food from the 24 h take away. She had been half way there when it had started pouring like there was no tomorrow. So there she was soaking wet, tired and as she hadn't arrived yet still starving or maybe just hungry but her annoyance made it seem worse. She was about to cross the street, when she noticed that the gate to the cemetery was open. To walk through the graveyard would safe her a...