Two months ago I received a very special submission to this project: a fascinating and rare book, “Twenty-Six Ghosts,” and a 21-page letter (see the above photo). The articulate letter was hand-written on composition paper, the ink varying color over the course of the pages. I read it in one sitting, and I felt as if I was reading a short story in a modern anthology of ghost stories. It was very psychological and as as the writer said herself “open to interpretation.” Here are a few fragments from the letter, the rest I will leave up to your imagination. 

“This particular volume of 36 Ghosts seems to have been part of all kinds of coincidences during the course of its most secret life —, a life which, when I obtained the book I was dying to learn more about. It seemed sort of like the key to understanding several things in my life that were just complete unknowns, and that were causing me to be plagued by a lot of unresolved issues that seemed to be effecting so many aspects of my life. Many of the issues connected with this book are still unresolved, but I think I am coming to a point where I am able to move beyond all that, to resolved the unresolvable, so to speak. It is time to let go. But let me start at the beginning…”

“He went away, unexpectedly and mysteriously, and all he left behind was 36 Ghosts. And there’s me, #11 - the raging serpent lady seeking her revenge. At least that is the way I feel sometimes. Other times I’m just sad to have lost someone I connected with so well.”