Riddance. Shelley Jackson

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       Letters to Dead Authors, #2: Melville. “It has come to my attention that you are dead.”

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       The Final Dispatch: “[Extended static, several words indistinct] . . . someone is missing . . .”

       The Stenographer’s Story: “‘Wake up!’ The Intake Coordinator, if that was what she was . . .”

       Readings: from Principles of Necrophysics: “The Mechanics of Channeling the Dead”

       Letters to Dead Authors, #3: Brontë (Charlotte). “I am—but I shall not introduce myself.”

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       The Final Dispatch: “It is easy to forget what you are about, in the land of the dead.”

       The Stenographer’s Story: “I traipsed dumbly around behind Florence . . .”

       Readings: from “A Visitor’s Observations.” On Eating and Other Oral Activities

       Letters to Dead Authors, #4: Charlotte. “I have seized my Eve, my ‘’v’’!”

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       The Final Dispatch: “But if we are all dead, then there is certainly no rush . . .”

       The Stenographer’s Story: “Mother Other was waiting in the hall when I emerged.”

       Readings: from “A Visitor’s Observations.” On Methods of Listening

       Letters to Dead Authors, #5: Hawthorne. “I stop by the dormitory at night to imagine the ghosts rushing in and out . . .”

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       The Final Dispatch: “The road, the ravine, the fields, the . . .”

       The Stenographer’s Story: “‘No, no, no, no, no! I said, listen with your mouth.’”

       Readings: from Principles of Necrophysics: “A Report on Certain Curious Objects . . .”

       Letters to Dead Authors, #6: E. A. Poe. “The Cheesehill Gazette has published a defamatory letter . . .”

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       The Final Dispatch: “I had never seen a person looking the way she looked . . .”

       The Stenographer’s Story: “She sweeps down the hall, her heavy skirts . . .”

       Readings: from “A Visitor’s Observations.” On Punishment

       Letters to Dead Authors, #7: Brontë (Emily). “Doctor Beede tells me, one finger probing greedily . . .”

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       The Final Dispatch: “I have just spent a summer in my mother’s hand.”

       The Stenographer’s Story: “I was lying in my bed, putting in a little extra practice.”

       Readings: from “A Visitor’s Observations.” On Play

       Letters to Dead Authors, #8: Mary Shelley. “Intermediate Death Studies. The students bend their heads . . .”

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       The Final Dispatch: “So I am back at the beginning of the chase.”

       The Stenographer’s Story: “I swim up from sleep, frowning . . .”

       Readings: from “A Visitor’s Observations.” On Certain Objects in the Collection

       Letters to Dead Authors, #9: Stoker. “My voice weakens. It seems to sink back . . .”

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       The Final Dispatch: “This is how it happened.”

       The Stenographer’s Story: “It is customary in telling stories from school . . .”

       Readings: from “A Visitor’s Observations.” On Articles of Dress

       Letters to Dead Authors, #10: Mina Harker. “Now it is my mother whose voice I seemed to hear.”

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