Ghostbusters

Have you ever felt there was unfinished business and wished you could cross eternity and get that one last word in with the dead? There's something unfair in being cut off by the end of someone else's life. It's like being stopped in mid-sentence. Late developers face this predicament. Say you had a successful parent. Once they're dead you may start to succeed, but it's too late. Isn't there supposed to be a party line with the afterlife? Isn't that what seances purport to do? You call up the apparition or shadow spirit of whomever at the seance, but instead of asking them how their afterlife is going, you go on about yourself. You've got a captive audience. They're not going anywhere, like that that editor or agent who told you they were on the way to meeting, even as they open the rest room door.  Poltergeists ("Geist" in German is "spirit") are harmless is one of the first things Ghostbusters learn.

read "Rhododendron" by Francis Levy, The East Hampton Star

and also read "Punk" by Francis Levy, The East Hampton Star