At Electric Literature, Samantha Tanner reaches out to the dead via a spiritual medium, confronting the ghosts and echoes that haunt anyone who writes about family. Along the way she contemplates exercises of faith and delving into the unknown:
The distinction between fiction and faith is huge. Yet, in their telling of truths and lies, both writers and mediums, at their core, are trying to make meaning. Writers and mediums take raw details —our trinkets and our tics —link them and imbue them with purpose.
