{"id":156,"date":"2019-11-18T10:10:42","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T10:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writersjournal.net\/?p=156"},"modified":"2019-11-18T10:10:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T10:10:42","slug":"writers-journal-30-horror-mirror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersjournal.net\/index.php\/2019\/11\/18\/writers-journal-30-horror-mirror\/","title":{"rendered":"Writers&#8217; Journal #30 &#8211; Horror Mirror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was five years old when grandma passed away in England. I couldn&#8217;t remember anything about her but I was told we were very close. Apparently , we used to visit her every Christmas. I had nearly forgotten all about it till I turned twenty-one. Then I received a call from a man who said he was representing grandma to follow her will!<\/p>\n<p>Who would have thought a will could last for so long? Anyway , the will stated to transfer the rights of the ancestral home to me when I turned twenty-one. I had just completed the degree and had yet to land a job. It didn&#8217;t take much to persuade me to leave home and to fly over to England the very next day. To make the trip sweeter , Jamie , my best friend , also tagged along with me.<\/p>\n<p>The flight was non-eventful and we arrived at the Heathrow airport and straight to the lawyer&#8217;s office. We received the necessary documents and then on our ways to shopping. Then we were on our way to the location given to us in the will.<\/p>\n<p>The trip took us several hours by train , bus and then cab. It was an old cottage near the outskirt of the town and a bit further. We had to take our steps carefully to avoid landing on the countless creepy-crawlies in the garden and in the house. Jamie remarked it was like an Indiana Jones movies and I had to agree with her. But before the sun set , we had unpacked our bags and prepared the beds.<\/p>\n<p>We went back into the town&#8217;s center for dinner and strolled back to the cottage. Fortunately , the electricity and the lights were still functioning and we had a great time looking around the place. All in all , there was nothing in the house worth salvaging except for the grand mirror in the living room. We had a good look at it and we both thought it was strange for it to be still clear and polished compared to the rest of the furniture.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe we had a jet-lag or perhaps the beer in England was stronger than back home but soon we both found ourselves heading for the bed. The night turned chilly quickly and I started shivering. Then I remembered someone came over to the bed and covered me with the blanket. I assumed it was Jamie but she protested the next day!<\/p>\n<p>The End.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was five years old when grandma passed away in England. I couldn&#8217;t remember anything about her but I was told we were very close. Apparently , we used to visit her every Christmas. I had nearly forgotten all about it till I turned twenty-one. Then I received a call from a man who said&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,1],"tags":[64],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horror","category-writers-journal","tag-horror-mirror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writersjournal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writersjournal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writersjournal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writersjournal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writersjournal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/writersjournal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160,"href":"https:\/\/writersjournal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writersjournal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writersjournal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writersjournal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}