The Ghost Lottery

"SO YOUR LOVED ONE IS A GHOST one of the pamphlets proclaimed in a large and well-chosen font. Some very talented typographers have evidently won the ghost lottery. The pamphlet helpfully detailed various things about Mumsy’s new existence, such as that ghosts can affect the material world with much practice (Mumsy poked me gently and smiled), and that ghosts should avoid passing directly through the still-living as it tends to cause ontological despair in the still-living subject ("Oh, darling, I’m sorry," said Mumsy). Another pamphlet provided a list of admirable people who had become ghosts, including Charlotte Brontë, former and current Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, and, just recently, Ireland’s beloved poet Seamus Heaney."

The Ghost Lottery is an homage to decadence, particularly Ada Leverson’s Cissy Carington stories. If you like dandies doting on their dead mothers, then this short story is almost certainly your sort of thing.

Booklet details:
- 5.5” x 8.5”
- 12 pages (approximately 3000 words)
-Cover illustration is by Louis John Rhead (1857-1926)
-Saddle stitch binding with orange thread
- Designed, printed, and bound by me, the person who wrote the thing