Not In My Backyard: Setting

See, here's the thing. There's some things a man just can't tolerate in his backyard, and constant ghosts of his wife and the pool boy rolling around is one of them. So I called for the exorcist. Some memories are so strong and so painful that they just stick around like glue. I knew that even if I sold my very nice home and moved, there was about a fifty-fifty chance the ghosts would follow me. Even if I got an apartment in a skyscraper, 50 stories up, they'd be rolling around there in the clouds just beyond my balcony. I didn't expect the exorcist to be pretty. I mean, I'd never really needed an exorcist before, and the ones on the TV shows are always male, scary-looking, and more than a little spooky. She was just a little slip of a thing with a sunshine smile and a bright floral print sun-dress with a matching bag that was--

Inspiration: "backyard"
Story Potential: High, at least as a setting.
Notes: I kinda like the idea of a world where there are visible ghosts, and they do cause problems, but they're all "strongly emotional event" ghosts, not dead people. Could significantly alter some societal rules.