New Ink Pitt--Troubled Thoughts

New Ink Pitt--The Haunting of Doom pt. 1 of 5: "Troubled Thoughts"

Trodemus lay in bed, beside his lady love, Belinda, the bbw. A wild night of romance with Belinda had made him temporarily forget his troubles.

As Belinda lay sound asleep, Trodemus remained wide awake. His mind revisted the questions that he had yet to answer. The dream that predicted the end of his business had now taken shape in the physcial word, and despite his efforts, continued to haunt him. Death had appeared, and reaffirmed that the Prophet of Doom’s fortune-telling business would end. A ghost had also appeared at the Haunted House of Doom, though there had been no one playing one, and nothing under the sheet! Trodemus was not sure what was going on, but he still did not believe that his business could fall with all the profits he’d been making.

Trodemus then laughed at himself for being frightened of his financial future. He had earned too much money to let a bad dream and a few unexplained incidents worry him! Besides, he was Trodemus, the Prophet of Doom, an expert on “doom” and at facing down the supernatural! Whatever was going on, he felt confident that he would figure it out and defeat the cause! Trodemus was further inspired as he looked over at Belinda sleeping so peacefully.

Suddenly, some books fell off a nearby shelf! A white light then appeared, revealing the outline of what looked like the same ghost Doom had seen in the haunted house! Trodemus rose up in bed and readied himself to fight it!

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Photo by Joshua Dyson and Kristen Whitehead

All characters appearing in this work
are fictitious. Any resemblance to real
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