Spooked!…in Soho

OK, I’m usually more motivated to finish these things if they’re public, so here’s the first two chapters, complete with intro to the reissue of the 1986 script novelization. Posted under my “bayone” pseud that I’ve begun using for my sillier fics:

Spooked!…in Soho (3324 words) by moon_custafer, bayone
Chapters: 2/?
Fandom: Original Work
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Characters: Original Characters
Additional Tags: Ghosts, ‘80s-style comedy, in the style of a movie script novelization, NYC, haunted antique shop, character death in the sense that one character is a ghost, Hijinks & Shenanigans
Summary:

Haunting an antiques shop… it’s a living!

Social Interaction

Talked to some people in the coffee shop. Well, mostly one guy who kept bringing up SFF authors whose names he couldn’t quite remember, so I’d eventually jump in and say “Edgar Rice Burroughs” or “Philip Pullman,” etc.* Now wondering if that was a good idea, because I go there every weekend and I think they’re also regulars, so the chances are high I’ll see one or more of them again and have to talk to them again. But live social interaction is a Good Normal Healthy Thing that I ought to be doing more of, so…



*For some reason he hadn’t heard of E. Nesbit at all. One of the others had heard of her, but hadn’t read her.