Slam and the ghosts

imageThe story ends suddenly. Poor Douglas is dead and Slam is left with the ghost! What happens next?

Does Douglas become a real ghost?

The other ghost has tried to frighten Slam before and failed; what does it do now?

What will Slam do now that he has lost his brother who used to work and earn all the money?

Using the same characters continue the story. Start like this:

Slam dropped his bottle. It smashed into a thousand fragments on the stony lane. Slam didn’t notice. He stared at the sight of his brother, wrapped in a white sheet, lying still at the bottom of the steep bank. Then something very strange began to happen.

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  1. Then something very strange began to happen. Old Slam stared down in shock as he saw another real ghost rising from Douglas’s body. “WHOOOOOO!” shouted Douglas’s ghost. “AAAARR” screamed Slam as he ran quickly down the lane back to his mothers house. As he burst through the door, he heard snoring coming from upstairs and realised it must of been his mother. When he edged his way upstairs and opened the door he saw Douglas and he WHOOOD at him again. “AAAARRR!” screamed Slam again as he ran down the stairs very fast. He ran so fast he accidentally slipped and broke his neck. Poor Slam, that was the end of him.

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  2. Slam dropped his bottle. It smashed into a thousand fragments on the stony lane. Slam didn’t notice. He stared at the of his brother,wrapped in a white sheet,lying still at the bottom of the steep bank. Then something very strange began to happen. Slam’s brother was a ghost. Slam owns the ghost of his brother Douglas. Slam is still asking himself if Douglas will be a ghost forever.

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  3. Slam dropped his bottle. It smashed into a thousand fragments on the stony lane. Slam didn’t notice. He stared at the sight of his brother, wrapped in a white sheet, lying still at the bottom of the steep bank. Then something very strange began to happen, a small white figure came ascending up to Douglas, it was his ghost! Slam was shocked at seeing his own brother turning into a ghost. Obviously, Slam did not care because he was drunk. He was so astonished, he never thought he would see Douglas in a ghost form. He slowly rose up to the top of the bank and came up to Slam. Then slam went home with Douglas and when Slam’s mother found out she wasn’t happy, she wasn’t happy at all. Now she doesn’t have a good son and she can not get any money. But then when slam heard his mother say that he had changed his ways because he stopped spending his money on beer and came home with his full amount of money Slam’s mother was so pleased with slam. But that’s when Douglas got jealous so when slam was coming home from work and went through the steep bank Douglas pushed slam off the bank and he became a ghost too. So now Slam and Douglas’s mum can never get any money.

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    1. Malaki, your writing has made a lot of progress over a short period of time. I particularly like your conscious attempt at using more effective language. I appreciate your effort. This is me being picky…don’t forget to paragraph your work to organise your ideas. Prize box. 🌟

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  4. Slam dropped his bottle it smahed into a thousand fragments on the stony lane. Slam didn’t notice. He started at the sight of his brother ,wrapped in a white sheet living still at the bottom of the steep bank . Then something very strange began to happen ghosts came out nowhere . Slam did not know what to do . He tried running away but the ghosts trap him. ” ahhhhh” slam sceemed . He had nobody with him slam and his mum had no money. Douglas, who was a kind and fendly boy tried to get money for the family

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    1. Poor Douglas is dead slam has nobody to go to for help only his mum . He is now on his all by his self so it’s only him and his mum . Slam, who has been at the pub all night has to get money for the family. Slam is feeling scared and worried because Douglas has gone slam is the only child now . He has to get money for the family . Slam is the only child in the fanily he can not go to the pub anymore beause he has to get money for the poor famliy . He is lost because he has no Douglas to have support his mum is very poor . Slam has to try and get money for his mum. There is only him and his mum to get money because poor Douglas is dead .

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  6. Slam dropped his bottle. It smashed into a thousand fragments on the stony lane. Slam didn’t notice. He stared at the sight of his brother, wrapped in a white sheet, lying still at the bottom of the steep bank. Then something very strange began to happen. Slowly, a bright light floated in to cold air of the night like a helium balloon . Slam rapidly span around and dashed towards the pub. He got there but was in such of a hurry Slam forgot about the step and tripped over it. The bar man had never witnessed such drama as Slam flew through the air like an eagle and landed on the floor with a ginormous ‘CRACK!’ Slam split his head right open. Poor Slam! That was the end of him. Now there was two ghosts. They both hovered through the air heading towards there house. They went through the old rotten door and up the dirty stairs to find their mother lying down in her bed supposedly relaxing, but not for long. She hopped up in the blink of an eye screaming so loud that it disturbed Mrs Beesly doing her marking for the next day. Slam and Douglas’ mother attempted to jump out of her bed, but missed tripped over the bed side table and fell through the window! Oh dear, that was the end of them.

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  7. got bored so i did a poem

    there was a man called slam
    he looked just like a ram
    he had a brother
    and also a mother

    one day slam went to a pub
    slam was as hairy as a wolf cub
    he bought a beer
    he drunk so much he had a tear

    one day his brother died
    slam cried and cried
    slam told his mother
    she was sad that she didn’t have a brother

    slam changed his ways
    and he brought all of his pays
    slam was happy
    but he misses his pappy

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  8. Slam dropped his bottle. It smashed into a thousand fragments on the stony lane. Slam didn’t notice. He stared at the sight of his brother, wrapped in a white sheet, lying still at the bottom of the steep bank. Then something very strange began to happen. Slam ran with such fright that he scared all of the ghastly crows that were sat on the broken roof of the aged pub. Then suddenly he saw a different ghost appear but it wasn’t just any random ghost it was Douglas and it wasn’t happy especially not with slam. slam slowly crept in to the pub warily, just when slam thought he was safe he tripped backwards on the pub chair and with a “THUD!!!!”Slam was dead!

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  9. Slam dropped his bottle. It smashed into a thousand fragments on the stony lane. Slam didn’t notice. He stared at the sight of his brother, wrapped in a white sheet, lying still at the bottom of the steep bank. Then something very strange began to happen. Groaning softly, Douglas’s body began to rise as if it was being lifted by an invisible puppeteer. Slam stared wordlessly, horrified, as the body dangled in mid air. Suddenly, it planted its feet on the ground and jerked upright. Its bloodshot red eyes popped open and Slam gasped. He felt as if all his breath had been pulled out of him. There was a streak of clashing lightening and to Slam’s right a heavy gravestone was being pushed slowly to the side. The tips of green fingers crept over the edge of the hole. They gripped into the hard dirt and hauled up a zombified body onto the grass. Soundlessly, more bodies rose out of graves in the same way and surrounded Slam, leaving him trapped in the center.
    “You don’t want me. I’m only a stupid drunkard,” Slam moaned. But the zombies weren’t listening, they already had hold of Slam’s throat. Shaking him, they slammed him into a grave and before he could speak or move they pushed the gravestone over him.
    Minutes later, the gravestone was again pushed away as Slam clambered out…….with bloodshot eyes, just like his brother….

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  10. Slam dropped his bottle.it smashed into a thousand fragments on the stony lane. Slam didn’t notice he started at the sight of his brother, wrapped in a white sheet, lying still at the bottom of the steep bank. Then something very strange began to happen. Suddenly Douglas’s body began to rise very quickly and started to float in mid air. Douglas’s body started floating to an empty place in the grave yard and planted his arms and feet into the ground and started to lay down his dark red eyes of a sprit opened up and glared at Slam. Slam was very confused and stared staring in Douglas’ eyes as he stared into Slam’s eyes Slam a couple of minutes later walked away home and went of to tell his mum and his mum was ashamed…

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  11. Something strange was about to happen, Slam’s heart was fractured seeing his brother die right in front of him but he wouldn’t give up on him, every time he worked hard it was for him. On the stony pebble lane, Slam heard a scream “HELP!” he ran and ran but felt like he wasn’t going anywhere, all of a sudden a torrential storm occurred, lightning struck their village. Slam spotted a fire burning in the trees but had no time to save anyone the fire was catching up near the road and Slam sprinted into an old, gloomy, pitch black cave, he pushed a big rock in front of the opening and he hid behind a rock trying to make himself warm but then a light appeared and a traumatizing shadowed looked at him. One point it was there and the next it disappeared, and Slam blacked out for a moment…

    Slowly, his eyes started to roll open but there was a spine-chilling figure lingering over him he closed his eyes again and wished for it to go away but when he opened them it was still hovering over him. There was a voice and Slam was trembling behind the rock and then he recognised the voice and shouted “Douglas, it that you!”
    “JUST GO IT’S NOT SAFE HERE!” Slam saw a light and sprinted to it, all his mind was set on reaching it but then it vanished and Slam’s thoughts were “I am never going to get out of here!” After that day no one ever saw Slam ever again…

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  12. A spirit rose up out of Douglas and next to the other ghost. They both whooooed in harmony. Slam started down the road and occasionally he bumped into a lamppost – because of his drunkenness – and the ghosts pursued him. Slam was just around the corner when he slipped in a puddle of water and hit his head. Wearily Slam picked himself up and continued towards his house and made it through the door. Thinking he was safe Slam slouched down in a chair and sighed. Slam’s mother burst through her bedroom door and into the living room when the ghosts shot through the wall.

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  13. Poor Douglas, Slam was so upset but then suddenly something began to rise from Douglas’ body, Slam thought he knew what it was, Slam was right it was a ghost. As the ghost rose, it made a strange noise sounding like ” WHOOOOO, WHOOOOO!” Slam ran away as quickly as he could, as Slam turned around he noticed that Douglas’ ghost was following him. Slam stumbled and banged his head on a rock, what was going to happen to slam he couldn’t die aswell as his brother, his mother would be so alone…

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  14. Then something very strange began to happen.Light hit the graveyard and Douglas turned slowly into a ghost. When Slam told his mother that Douglas was a ghost she screamed saying that Slam had to bring home the money. Then one night when slam was on his way back from the graveyard he saw two ghosts. One of them was Douglas Slam was so frightened he didn’t know what do so he just walked forward and tripped on a rock and broke his neck. Suddenly light appeared again Slam was a ghost. What will the family do now to get some money?

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  15. Slam drooped his bottle as he saw something coming out of Douglas body “Whooooo!” Slam ran back to his mothers house and then went upstairs when he heard snoring he looked in his mothers room. There was Douglas again he went running down the stairs so fast he slipped and broke his neck and that was the end of poor old Slam.

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  16. Slam dropped his bottle. It smashed into a thousand fragments on the stony lane. He stared at the sight of his brother, wrapped in a white sheet, lying still at the bottom of a steep bank.

    Then something very peculiar began to happen – Douglas’s body turned to stone – his eyes were like fire. Slam couldn’t help but to stare at his eyes, they were rather strange and he blinked. Now Douglas was grabbing onto him in a headlock. Suddenly, Slam started to choke, he started backwards and broke his neck. Poor old Slam, that was the end of him.

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  17. Slam dropped his bottle. It smashed into a thousand fragments on the stony lane. Slam didn’t notice. He stared at the sight of his brother, wrapped in a white sheet, lying still at the bottom of the steep bank. Then something very queer began to happen. Suddenly, as Slam stared in horror, a ghoulish monster arose from the dead body of Douglas. Slam turned and ran but the blood-curdling, heart-stopping phantom sped after him. With the two ghosts in hot pursuit, Slam bulleted down the old cobbled lane, screaming “AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!” as he went. Just then, running wildly, Slam tripped over some tree roots and went tumbling over. His head hit the cobbles and cracked open. Poor old Slam, that was the end of him!

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  18. Slams bottle crashed on the cold wet path as he swallowed one mighty gulp of beer his cold wet face drenching with sweat. He peered over the wall and saw his dear brother lying there cold and still as Slam looked away a burning light shot at his head and his eyes flared up with fire. Douglas arose from the grave his head lopsided and his neck twisted he grabbed Slam by the neck and he breathed deep breaths and began to fade away poor old Slam that taught him a lesson

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  19. Suddenly Slam dropped his glass bottle onto the wet floor and it shattered into thousands of pieces. Slam was still drunk but he could feel something hurting inside him. Slam stepped back and almost tripped up, he did not know what to do without his brother bringing home the money that he would use. An unusual sound could be heard coming out of Douglas’ body. A ghost came out from his body. What can I do thought Slam

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  20. Slam stood lifeless as he dropped his bottle into many tiny pieces they raced across the wet damp floor Slam charged to Douglas. Moments later a ghost rose out of Douglas and placed its self in the air Slam was still drunk yet he still knew it was Douglas and felt strong about Douglas being dead what would he do without Douglas bringing money home every night .Will Slam now stop going to the pub now ? . . .

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  21. Douglas was dead. Slam looked down at his brothers body trying to get him up from the cobbled road but nothing happend. The two ghosts that were hovering now over Douglas’s dead body looked up at Slam in a very creepy way. Then there eyes stared up into the sky, indicating that something caught there interest.
    Suddenly, a strange figure came decending down from the sky like a ghost – or maybe it was ghost. It was Douglas but not his usually self. He was see through, and for a start he was hovering in mid air.

    The two ghosts started to greet Douglas and whisper in hushed voices. Slam, still drunk looked ever confused and then suddenly stopped to the ghosts commands.
    “Slam! What have you done to me,” shouted Douglas
    “er I don’t know, but you looked pretty cool to me,” replied Slam
    But Suddenly, after those final words, Slam fell to the floor and died. Poor old Slam.

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  22. Slam started to squint at the ghost then the ghost started to recite a poem.
    I am the ghost of all spirits
    What do you behold
    Do you bring the body for me
    Why have you come?

    He said it over and over. Suddenly slam started wobbling. he started to say the poem:

    I am the ghost of all spirits
    What do you behold…

    Slam was turning into a ghost. He looked the ghost in the eye, blinked, then walked away. He had a cheesy grin on his face…
    he was gone in a split second. So was the ghost…

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  23. Slam dropped his bottle. It smashed into a thousand fragments on the stony lane. Slam didn’t notice. He stared at the sight of his brother, wrapped in a white sheet, lying still at the bottom of the steep bank. Then something very strange began to happen…

    A large ghoulish ghost arose from Douglas’s body. A vast graveyard surrounded them. Suddenly Douglas’s ghost entered Slams body making him hover over the stony ground. Slam was now whoo-hooing at the other ghost but still toppling from side to side as he was still drunk. That was when the other ghost started throwing stones at Slam’s body but was shocked to see that the stones went straight through him. The ghost had never seen anything like it before as it didn’t know that Douglas’s ghost had entered Slam’s body and was frightened that stones were going straight through a human. This scared the ghost off and Douglas left Slam’s body and flew off into the distance of the crisp night.

    Slam stumbled home and catapulted through the door of the small cottage that he lived in with his mum. Night turned to day and Slam had recovered after being drunk. Mum was devastated to hear the words that Douglas was dead come out of Slam’s mouth. Slam now had to work hard and earn money for the rest of his life. Poor Slam, life didn’t turn out like he wanted it to after all.

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  24. Douglas stared in horror as he saw there were two ghost at the corner of his eye there was noises “whooooo” there were a ghost it looked very much like her mum wait could it be her mum. Douglas suddenly hurried away as he new this was only going to get more weird but because he was drunk he went across the road cars beeping but in the car they were all ghosts suddenly in a flash Douglas passed out and fell to the hard concrete , crashing down and died.

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  25. Slam and the ghosts

    Slam dropped his bottle. It smashed into a thousand fragments on the stony lane. Slam didn’t notice He stared at the sight of his brother, rapped in a white sheet, lying still at the bottom of the steep bank. Then something very strange began to happen.

    A bright, yellow halo appeared around Douglas, and poor Slam was now in a terrible state of shock as his brother, the one who always kept the money coming in, had now arose from lying on the floor and up into the darkness of the night. Douglas’s body morphed into a tall, thin, hideous thing to whom Slam ran away from, terrified of his brother being a ghost.

    Meanwhile, the original ghost had scampered away into the dense undergrowth that surrounded them, for it too had been scared from what had just occurred.

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  26. Slam dropped his bottle. It smashed into a thousand fragments on the stony lane. Slam didn’t notice . He stared at the sight of his brother, wrapped in a white sheet, lying still at the bottom of the steep bank. Then something very strange happened…

    A ghost rose up from inside Douglas but it didn’t really bother slam because he already thought there were two ghosts anyway. Suddenly,out of nowhere came a wolf pouncing out from behind a tree! Slam was finally shocked, actually he was that shocked he never ever drank beer again in his whole life!

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  28. Slam dropped his bottle. It smashed into a thousand fragments on the stony lane. Slam didn’t notice. He stared at the sight of his brother, wrapped in a white sheet, lying still at the bottom of the steep bank. Then something very strange began to happen.
    Douglas was dead, there was nothing they could do about it. All his money had go to the pub, the pub that he drinks and comes home drunk and sees all the ghost that no one has never seen. slam and his mother was poor without Douglas because he was the only one that had a job , but he never brought any money. One night slam went outside to the graveyard and he could hear strange noise it was Douglas what was he going to do …

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  29. Slam dropped his bottle. It smashed into a thousand fragments on the stony lane. Slam didn’t notice. He stared at the sight of his brother, wrapped in a white sheet, lying still at the bottom of the steep bank. Then something very strange began to happen. slam started to hear repetitive noises like someone was yelling for me so i ignored him and started to run leaving his dead brother behind.

    running into thin darkens slam tried to run with his drunk brain so he didn’t know what to do he tried to make it home but ended up running back to the ghosts the the ghosts then the ghost said “I WILL GET YOU.” So slam ran and tried to get home eventually he did and brought up the sad news to his mum “slam is dead” obviously slam didn’t know what to say because he was drunk so he went to his room.

    later that night the ghost came and killed slam whiles he was asleep the slam BECAME A GHOST.

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  30. Slam dropped his bottle. It shattered into a thousand fragments, which lay on the cobbled street. Slam couldn’t care less. He was too busy staring eagle eyed at Douglas’s body, which just stopped shivering and lay still in a crumpled heap.
    Petrified and shaken, Slam stumbled back wordlessly and slumped against the bridge wall. Without warning, something peculiar began to happen…
    Groaning miserably, a ghostly ragged figure rose from Douglas’s still body, like it was being hoisted in mid-air by an invisible puppeteer.
    Under stars jagged like thorns, the creature thrust its bloodshot, blistered eyes open and stared aimlessly through Slam, sending shivers to rattle down his spine. Abruptly, the figure’s feet collided with the ground causing an unearthly rumble to cascade around the village.
    His breath caught in his chest, unable to rip his eyes from the horror, Slam knew he was reaching his end. With one last glance, the ghost’s mangled hands wrapped themselves around Slam’s neck. Slam’s vision swam as he crumbled to the floor in a mound.
    Yet to this day, the ghost of Slam, will still claim that he saw some sympathy and regret in his brother’s last glance…

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    1. Lovely use of language Alex. I am impressed by your ability to remember effective clauses and adapt them to your own writing. It is obvious that you have adopted a consciousness effort to proofreading your work too. Super work. Prize Box 🌟

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  31. SLAM AND THE GHOST
    As slam was walking down the dark misty road he managed to get himself into an old graveyard,
    his brother Douglas was getting so annoyed because Slam was going to the pub every night so he dressed himself up as a ghost and went to the grave yard.

    The other night Slam was drunk he went to the graveyard and saw one ghost and went home to tell his mum, so Douglas heard and said to himself the next time you get drunk I will go to the graveyard and scare you to death.

    One night Slam was drunk and Douglas knew so he went to the graveyard and dressed himself up as a ghost so Slam went there and said one ghost? Now there’s two! What’s going on here, what the heck? As Douglas was going to scare him he slipped and broke his neck on the grave yard wall… will Douglas turn into a real ghost?

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