Mal hears some untold stories. Conversations with Ghosts is a Dead Signals production. This episode featured sound design and orginal music by Daniel Powell, along with writing by Marc Sollinger. Marc Sollinger played Mal, Cecilia Lynn-Jacobs played the science-fiction writer. For the full cast and crew, along with transcripts and more information about the podcast, visit our website: conversationswithghosts.com. To support the podcast, as well as get access to a bunch of fun extras, go to our patreon: http://patreon.com/archive81
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My name is Mal Fleming. I am here to assist in your passage. Can you remember your name and the circumstances of your death?
Josephine Johnson. The term is pulmonary embolism. You heard of it?
I don't believe so, no.
It's when a little blockage moves to your lungs, your lungs can't get any oxygen, and that's it. No warning. Out like a light switch. I was cooking dinner. I tried to turn the gas off, but pretty sure they found me before the building burned down. Took a while to figure out exactly what had happened. Had to hound some dead doctors, the recently deceased, mind you.
The older ones love to diagnose hysteria. Originally, I thought it was a meteor strike or poison. Not that anyone would have wanted to poison me. It could happen to anyone.
Of course.
Dying with no warning at all. Dying while interviewing a ghost. A good premise in that, somewhere. Would need a little twist, though. It's the shrug of it all that's really terrifying, though. The lack of a good ending. That the person writing your story is a hack. No, not even a hack. A hack would have given the ending a little oomph, that your author just got bored and didn't even finish.
Or maybe he's a modernist, trying to write a story that's just as meaningless as real life. I'm not a modernist, Mal.
You were also known as A.R. Baker, correct? Should I call you A.R.? Would you prefer that?
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