Immobile - a 117 word flash fiction story

[Kyriakos]

I think this one isn't entirely useless. Feedback is welcome
(as usual, this is my translation from my greek original piece)


Immobile






My most defining characteristic is that I remain immobile.


Why do I remain immobile?


Certainly not due to any beauty of the location I am at. And yet I remain immobile, since the world around me is the world of my ghosts. I do not remain immobile because one ghost made its appearance, and consequently I was shocked by its nightmarish form (something like that would have been perfectly sensible), but due to fearing that if I was to move I’d then cause the mass emergence of ghosts, and it’s been sometime now since I am of the opinion that the sole reason I am surviving is that those ghosts have kept to being hard to notice.

[NorseThing]

I probably misunderstood, but are you a statue? I was just thinking about all the classic Greek statues and the Roman copies (ghosts). If I am wrong, perhaps there is a new flash fiction on the horizon.

[Kyriakos]

Yes, this isn't about (literally) a statue ^^
Though a statue could also be a symbol for the same immobility.
Moreover, next to a statue (eg one made of marble), the human passing forms would be composed of something so much lighter that they could be viewed as ghostly