Author
EA Levin
This story was inspired by two things: (1) A prompt to write "a non-traditional ghost story," and (2) A bureaucratic black-hole my brother fell into, where he was sent an activation code in the post which expired three days before it arrived. Watching him try to navigate automated phone lines with a problem that wasn't supposed to exist was equal parts hilarious and terrifying.
- EA Levin
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Ghosts
The second ghost I met called himself Pedro Sinclair. He lived under a flyover between Junction 1 of the North Circular, and the office supplies wholesaler at Staples Corner. He had built himself a home of scaffolding and tarpaulin which cast geometric shadows in the setting…