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John Sundman
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Biodigital novelist, mover of heavy objects, volunteer firefighter (retired), national treasure. "Sundman figures it out!" : johnsundman.substack.com/ JohnSundman.com
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Foreword, part 2/

But it was drafty and the ancient windows rattled and it was impossible to heat in the winter. Before we bought it, it had sat empty for a year. It was a white elephant whose time had come and gone. Nobody wanted that kind of house any more. There wasn’t even room for a table in the kitchen, because a hundred years ago the master of the house took his breakfast in the dining room, attended by servants. Also, as we discovered after we had purchased it, the house was said to be haunted. In retrospect, maybe that was why the real estate agent who showed us the house had liquor on his breath and seemed so terrified the whole time.
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Foreword, part 3:

That majestic old house looked exactly like the kind of place you would set a ghost story, and years after we sold it we heard that it had been featured in one of those TV shows about paranormal stuff. It had all the right trappings. Only the Living Feel Remorse has none of those classic ghost story trappings. It’s set in a grimy, go-nowhere industrial town known to locals as Shithole. Our haunted narrator is nothing like an exotic wealthy industrialist or a backstairs servant that you might find in a more conventional story. He’s a guy who drinks too much, works dead-end jobs, sleeps in his clothes. He has no friends — unless you count the bottles of cheap booze that clutter his low-rent apartment.
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John Sundman
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Biodigital novelist, mover of heavy objects, volunteer firefighter (retired), national treasure. "Sundman figures it out!" : johnsundman.substack.com/ JohnSundman.com
769 followers1.9k following1.8k posts
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