Spoken · A 1776 town · 1776
A town's ghost stories
90Sit with it.Not an average of critics. Eight questions, one house.
The night's entertainment. Superstition was ordinary.
The glance
Industry is the thin one.
This phone
Set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
After the credits
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
Not every story at the fire was Bunyan. A child also got the local dead: a witch, a light, a man who did not stay buried. People believed more of it than a later century likes to admit.
The score is low because the tale does not ask anyone to be better, truer, or more useful. It asks them to be afraid. Fear was a real pastime. It is still a thin one.
Folio
Keep A town's ghost stories in the record.
The date, your number, and one sentence.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
The eight
Industry
9/10
No work. A thrill.
Household
9/10
Told by the fire, which is a family act. The content does not build a house.
Piety
9/10
Fear of spirits is not reverence. It is the opposite of a catechism.
Courage
9/10
A child listens. He is not asked to do anything brave.
Republic
9/10
The town shares a scare. It does not share a duty.
Temperance
9/10
Dread, portioned at night. Not cruelty. Not a lesson in appetite either.
Truth
9/10
Told as if it happened. Often it did not. The story does not care.
Stewardship
9/10
Handed on, and what is handed on is a fright.
Live historicallyIf a ghost story is told in the house, say plainly that it is a story.