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Street Fight

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Written for Fandango’s Story Starter #231.
Here’s my story, using Fandango’s line.

Image by Me & Gemini

The candles flickered as Margeaux pressed her fingers to the Ouija board.

“Ronny, are you there?” she whispered.

My fiancé had died five weeks ago. Ronny had gotten involved with a dangerous street gang. One night just after Christmas, I begged him not to go out but he said he had to be his brothers. Something big was going down. That night there was a deadly fight. Ronny stabbed a guy from another gang …. just before he was killed.

Margeaux claimed she could reach Ronny, and in my grief, I’d been desperate enough to believe her. She repeated her question: “Ronny, are you there?”

The planchette trembled, then slid: Y-E-S.

“Ask him something only he would know,” Margeaux urged.

“Ronny, which song on one of our albums has a scratch?”

The planchette moved slowly: S-T-R

It stopped mid-word.

“Ronny?” I leaned forward. “Ronny, finish the answer.”

Nothing. The candles burned straight and still. Even the shadows seemed to hold their breath.

Margeauxv bristled. “Ronny’s not alone on the other side,” she whispered ominously.

“What do you mean …. ‘not alone’?” I tried once more. “Ronny, please.” Nothing.

I couldn’t stop thinking about the fight and Ronny killing someone; I suddenly became very frightened. This time, when he didn’t reply, I immediately thought “They’ve got him and now they’re coming for me.”

The room grew cold, not like a winter wind, but something deeper, something wrong. The planchette suddenly began moving again, wild and frantic, spelling nothing coherent, just letters tumbling over letters.

Margeaux yanked her hands away. “We need to close the circle. Now.”

And in the still, cold air of the room, something laughed.

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This is  “Street Fighting Man” by the Rolling Stones

Fandango’s Story Starter #231

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29 thoughts on “Street Fight”

    1. Thank you, Di. Ouija boards are sold in the toy section in department stores and on Amazon. That’s the only experience I have with them, playing around with my friends when I was much younger. I honestly have no idea if they work.

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      1. My sister and her then fiance later to be ex husband dabbled with friends. They got a weird message in what turned out to be Polish. One of the group had Polish relatives and was able to translate. It was a warning about a car accident. Turned out someone’s car had faulty brakes, and luckily got them fixed before tragedy. I’ve never dabbled but had my palm read twice…….. interesting readings.

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  4. Oooo, lovely shivers!! Though, Nancy, I’m scared of Ouija boards, … Just stories I’ve heard over the years, …whether or not they were true, I just kept my distance, …but, not from music, …🎶Penn exits stage left to listen 🎶…💙

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  7. Fun story, Nance. Street Fighting Man is not about a street fighter, as it is a political statement reflecting the spirit of the time and it was inspired by Jagger’s experience at an anti-Vietnam War rally at the U.S. Embassy in London’s Grosvenor Square on Sunday March 17, 1968.  The 24-year-old Mick Jagger was somewhere in the crowd, but he was not looking for a fight, as he wasn’t sure what a poor boy like him could do, except to sing in a rock ‘n’ roll band.

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