Mall Specter (of Chance)

Narrated portrait of unusual shopping complex 'experience' of doll haunting and movie-date linked jagged Earthling wonder.

A shopping complex spook tale for pre-Xmas consumerism. Thanks for reading, 

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I was happy living in my parents' house, writing ghost-stories under the spiritual protection eyes of my bedpost hanging angel-doll I got from Tijuana and thinking merrily of sugarplums dancing above my head for social media culture comment and snow (Facebook-like!).

MALL CLERK GIRL: You're a cutie for Xmas.

ME: Don't like my fake mustache many-a-lady says in here, the mall.

MALL CLERK GIRL: You're a cutie for Xmas.

ME: I have this stranger feeling (now) there's some haunting for shopping Hell!

MALL CLERK GIRL: You're a cutie for Xmas.

ME: Maybe I'll find us a classic doll, crafted, for a movie after hours, lady love?

MALL CLERK GIRL: You're a cutie for Xmas.

ME: I'll see ya (Facebook-like).

I told that gorgeous mall clerk woman I met that Xmas-season at the shopping complex in my hometown area of suburbia Echelon-Voorhees a very-special craft-store antique age doll/treasure; and I took her to a movie at the local AMC theater for a rescreening of a classic American holiday film. My date held the doll-gift in her hands, tearing at the vintage image of American hometown Xmas on the theater screen...but I started hearing that classic (if something of a stranger looking doll) begin whispering to me...something about the ghosts of Christmases past (damn). Was this Selfie-like?

DOLL: Get your date a post-cinema hometown variety of pizzas, cutie American.

ME: Are you talking to me?
DOLL: Make sure it's a nice mix of veggie and meats, cutie American.

ME: Are you a haunting spirit...or my date-lady whispering to me (vaudeville)?

DOLL: This is more real than you'd be able to handle/tolerate, cutie American.

ME: I guess I should've taken my ladyfriend to my apartment for sports (damn).

DOLL: Keep strong, for Xmas around Earth is more dark...pizza, cutie American.

ME: Wow, and I thought this was to be only a pizza smilie for ghost-stories.

DOLL: Good (Earth's unforgettable jars).

"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)