That plot generator has brought to mind

[conuly]

the moral to any Mary Downing Hahn story about ghosts ever (and most other ghost-related MG novels):

1. If you are unfriendly and unsociable and have no friends, the only friend you will ever make will be a ghost.

2. Ghosts all have deep-seated emotional problems, which is why they want to be your friend. You will have to be their therapist.

3. Once you have helped them heal, they will go away and leave you, and you will never see them again. The book will end before we find out if you ever learned to make living friends. This is a happy ending.

There's something a bit sad about that moral.

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Comments

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Odd Thomas isn't unfriendly or unsociable, but he IS odd, and most of his ghostly friends seem to have been murdered, so they're definitely in need of therapy and/or vengeance. Once they get it, they pass on to the Beyond: whatever. His living friends aren't that much better, though.

I know a bunch of people who do nalbinding. Norse/Rus personas are very popular here in northern An Tir, because Norse/Rus clothing suits our climate: true barbarians don't wear chain-mail bikinis.

I'm perfectly willing to make sacrifices to save the planet, and I think Mitch McConnell ought to be FIRST on the bloody altar, except that it seems very likely he doesn't actually have a heart.

[conuly]

We can always cut out his liver instead.

Odd Thomas?

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

That would do, I suppose.

Odd Thomas (https://www.amazon.com/gp/bookseries/B00CKBSTTG/) is a seven-book series by Dean Koontz. I'd say it's Koontz's best work - I'm not a huge fan of his, but Odd Thomas is an awesome character. He sees dead people.