This story
was written in 2002, and is meant to be a short ghost story.
However, I went overseas for several months, and when I got
back, I was too busy working on "Air + Space" (also
on this site) to finish it. So now, since it doesn't take too
much effort to do, I will be finishing this manga.
You
may be wondering why this manga is set in, of all places, a
girl's toilets. This is because it's based partly on spooky
stories about the school toilets that everyone likes to pass
around in high school... stories only someone like me
would be scared of. I suppose freaky things happen in toilets
so much because they are (a) usually dark and isolated, and
(b) people often have to go there alone. On the contrary, nothing
freakier than homosexual encounters happen in guy's toilets
(as far as I know). While girl's toilets are built on Indian
burial grounds and haunted by murdered nuns, only comedies seem
to happen in guys toilets.
Anyway,
trying to figure out the right "tone" for this story
wasn't easy. Do people like their ghost stories overblown, dramatic
and in-yer-face, or do they like it muted and unsettling in
a "no one can hear you scream" sort of way? Well,
because the ghost stories I heard in high school always seem
to be of the latter variety, I opted for the second one. Maybe
one day I'll draw a messy one.
This
reads in the western way, from left to right.
The font is also different, in TImes New Roman; I deliberately
used that font because it suited the overall style more.
Disclaimer:
The story, characters and everything in the manga is
my ORIGINAL WORK; if something looks or sounds
familiar then it is coincidence. As a note, everything on this
website is COPYRIGHTED TO CKY Studios, aka Queenie Chan.
Why anyone would want to steal from this is a complete mystery,
but if you want to borrow images, please email me and ask.