Specter of a Market: Photo-Graph

Portrait of haunting, but perhaps of the mind itself.

Ghost-story. Happy weekend, all 

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I was visiting my local super-market, usually on Saturdays, and I encountered the vision of a lovely-lady and took a side-view snapshot of her shopping while photographing some flowers for my personal postcard prints and ended up showing the image of the American woman to a friend of mine who happened to be a policeman (Selfie-like).

COP-BUDDY: I know that girl...she's dead!
ME: What's it?
COP-BUDDY: Yeah, she was killed in a drunk driving accident!

ME: What's it?
COP-BUDDY: You've been shopping at WalMart drunk, bud.

ME: What's it?

COP-BUDDY: You're seeing some specter, perhaps from a TV-news story, man.

ME:What's it?

COP-BUDDY: You need a psychiatrist, despite your Catholic sanity, pal.

ME: What's it?

Geez, my cop-pal was right (about me!). I'd been seeing the specter of a ghost-lady at the super-market I frequented, and it wasn't because I was inebriated in any way. Perhaps she was haunting American consumerism streets-feel for some reason. Whatever the reason, I had to talk to her. She'd always wear this Coronavirus-mask, and I thought she was attractive and worked up the courage to confront this ghost (Selfie-like).

When I walked up to her, I whispered, "You're very beautiful." She turned very slowly, took off her mask, smiled, and then she gave me a postcard-image print of ghosts dancing or something. I kept the print, but I didn't show it to my cop-friend who had told me of that very-same woman turning up deceased in a car-accident (wow). I kept the print, but I decided not to pursue the vision of the super-market girl anymore. I never saw her again. To this day, I wonder if she was a woman of romance...or a specter for doubt (for the Ego).

"Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about" (Ralph Waldo Emerson). 

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)

Reviews

[Abishai100]

Thanx for the read/like/comment; I'll think about what you mentioned about the ghost-image postcard things, since, incidentally, it's a story-idea line/image of rather good interest to me. I like concepts of traffic-linked unusualness. Thanx again,

A!

[Simone Davis]

I really enjoyed this , thought it felt a little unfinished could go into more detail like what actually was on the postcard, what emotion it made you feel etc