I played a game with a friend. The story had to be about mermaids, farming, ghostly traces, unbelievable tales, fans, and being separated by distance.
So I wrote this story about a mermaid.
"Hey, have you heard about that shop by the mountain?"
"Which mountain?"
"The one by the sea."
"That place is so remote. I heard someone heard ghosts wailing there. The sound is terrifying!"
"Tsk, that's no ghost wailing. It's the mountain spirit filleting fish! They say that every night at midnight, the smell of fish fills the air for ten miles around. The scent is so tempting, it's like it could lure your soul right out of you."
"Really? Shall we go try it tonight?"
"Hey! If we really got to eat a meal there, I'd die happy. But that's the thing: the shop is still there during the day, yet when night falls, countless people go looking for it and can't find it. It's downright mysterious."
P.S. This really isn't a ghost story. The ghosts are in people's hearts.
