Death By Passing The Parcel
Author : Niharika
This book is dedicated to Muffin, My Dog for cheering me up whenever I am sad.



Its actually fun to be dead once you get the hang of it.Maybe I should tell you the whole story....

It was just a normal day when as usual I was getting late for work.Si I grabbed a donut and coffee,geared up the car and headed for office. I work at a life insurance company and the guys there are nagging me all the time. I probably wouldn't tell my boss this, but he isn't exactly the brightest bulb in the chandelier.

So it was just about midday when it happened. The guys in our office are total nutcases,they keep fooling around and I (obviously) don't approve of it. Wee it was lunch, and even though I hate sitting on the table with everyone its sort of compulsory to. So the guys started playing passing the parcel and this guy names Sam was.....Oh! By the way name is Dylan Catrid.

So we were playing and unexpectedly the music stopped when I had the parcel. Everybody was looking at me, expecting me to to dance, sing or tell a joke. So I decided to recite a joke I heard on the radio the other day. it was this joke about penguins and whales. Then somebody started laughing and others were saying."Frozen with fear he is!" At first I thought they were acknowledging my joke but then they started asking questions like, "Are you deaf Catrid?"
"Are you dead?"
I replied, "I am not deaf or dead!!" but my words seemed to have no effect whatsoever on them. And i I have to confess, a strange sense of icy coldness was sweeping over me. I decided to prove to them that I wasn't dead, by finishing my delicious piece of cake I was having for lunch,but my hand passes right through the cake! I jumped up four feet into thin air, but nobody seemed to be interested in my gymnastics because they were all staring at my body below me!

It finally dawned on me that I was dead.

okay,at this point, I have got to tell you, all ghosts have special powers,those powers are ll related to either fire,water,earth,air or space. I was a fire ghost and was red in colour and my powers were that I could summon fire by stretching out my fingers and my hair was completely made out of fire.

Once you are defined as a ghost of one of the elements,you have to go and report to a centre, either The SGMA or The GJSA, (some ghosts even want to go to the SGVA- Super Ghost Villain Agency). I chose The SGMA (Super Ghost Mission Agency) as opposed to The GJSA (Ghost Job Selecting Agency). Well, if you got to the SGMA and get selected, then you can be sort of a ghost superhero and that's a job only the bravest can do.

I got through the test and went on to my first mission.
Since I was a junior at fighting the ghosts who entered the SGVA and
wanted to wreck latroms' lives (latroms = human beings)I got two other
junior partners,whom I quickly befriended and found out their powers - purple Stanley-space ghost,green - Jason - earth ghost.

We set off on our mission to destroy this svamp (water living vampires) that was going around licking latroms to make them svamps and spitting poison at grocery stores that contained garlic. We had this GPS (Ghost Positioning System) and found him wrecking Marks and Spencers and spewing poisonous spit everywhere. This was definitely noy a junior level monster!

We took our hand books and found out this was a senior level monster! But well, it didn't look so smart so we decided to fight it - Boy! Were we wrong!

Well, it wasn't smart but it did have more deadly weapons like poisoning spit and a tongue - if it gave you one lick you would become a svamp yourself. We made a plan that I would blast him with fire and weaken him, then Jason would make Marks and Spencers a garlic field, the svamp would run the other way where Stanley would be standing with a black hole to send the svamp away. So that's what happened.

When we got back we got badges of spectacular teamwork, and were transferred to a senior level. But unfortunately Stanley or Jason weren't on my team, two of these hulky,bulky guys were. I am very observant, so I immediately notices they were not using the same cellphones that everybody gets when joining the SGMA. So, I quickly called the authorities reporting two spies. But while trying to capture the spies, they accidentally killed me again,so now I can't be a superghost because now my soul is confines to the underworld and if you're wondering how I wrote this then here's your answer. I had to use this latrom to write this and this stupid latrom thinks she got hit with a great idea. But this is me,only me, not the latrom. So now you know.

About The Author

Niharika is the author of "Death by Passing the Parcel." She has written two other books "Hungry and Hungary" and "Feather and Heather's adventures". Her birthday is on the 13th of February and was born in the year 2000. She loves to read books herself,owns a dog and leads a happy life in Gurgaon.
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