Don't Pay Too Much for Your Whistle

When it was all said and done, these powers weren't worth half the pain I went through to get them. Sure it was an accident, but I couldn't help remembering one of my mom's favorite sayings whenever I thought back to the event that made me half-ghost.

"Don't pay too much for your whistle."

Jazz and I had grown up with mom repeating that saying every time we learned that something wasn't worth what we went through to get it. She'd told us who the quote came from half as many times as she actually said it, but I couldn't remember anything more specific than it coming from one of the founding fathers.

Don't pay too much for your whistle. I'd never managed to learn the lesson as I went through my childhood, but now it's message rang loud and clear. I'd damn near died in that portal, and even now I was walking a line that left me half-dead. Everyone who knows the truth about me thought these powers were cool, but ever since I'd gotten them, I knew one thing.

I'd paid way too damn much for this whistle.

So...um...yeah, I've finally given in and started up a collection of one-shots. These first few are going to be rather short since they were literally the first things that came to mind when asked to write a short entry in response to a prompt in my English textbook.

Comments and feedback are as welcome as always!