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everything was right and asked them
to send the issue up the chain of command.
After getting off the phone I sat and thought
for a while. Maybe in the future they might
open a chat
room or
even a ghost
dating
service.
    The information I'd collected was not enough
to complete three articles. As a writer, I knew
what people liked to read and so to spice up
my articles I wanted to have a conversation
with a famous person but none of them had
responded. So I did the next thing, I called my
grandma again. She was the only one ghost I
knew. She had said she'd seen Steve Jobs. It
was my only hope.
“Hi candy boy, where did you go in the middle
of our call?” she asked.
     
“Sorry, grandma there was a problem with the
signal.”
     
“No signal problem here!” she said with a
laugh. “It must be on your side of the veil.”
     
I talked with her for a while again and finally
asked her the favor I had in mind.
    “If you could please talk to Steve Jobs and get
some
information
for
me
that
would
be
amazing, grandma.”
    “How can I approach him?” she asked. “I can't
very
well
go
up to
him and
ask
for
an
autograph or a photograph can I? Maybe I'll
tell him I was an iPhone user.”
“Millions and millions of people use the
iPhone, grandma” I said and chuckled.
     
“Okay, well I will find a way. What
information do you want from him?”
    I
thought
about
it
for
a
second.
What
information did I want? “Just one question, ask
him what he thinks about the new iPhone 5S
and
5C
as
two
categories.
I'll
call
you
tomorrow at the same time. ”
    I hung up the phone and started to write the
three Ghost On Call articles that I had been
researching. I worked furiously and completed
two articles before I fell asleep.
“Candy boy, come on I'm waiting for you!”
    I woke up. Oh god, I forgot! I was supposed to
call my grandma. I was already late to call her.
How did she come into my dream? Ghosts
didn't
have outgoing calls
yet.
I called
my
grandma's
direct
number
before a recorded
female's voice said, “your balance is low.
Please recharge to make sure that your contact
is not interrupted.” My grandma answered
after only a single ring.
“Hi candy boy. I was waiting for your call and
was just thinking about you.”
    “Grandma, I think even without this service
that ghosts can connect to humans. It's pretty
unbelievable what just happened.”
“What do you mean?”
     
“You were in my dream just now. You asked
me to call you.”
     
“That’s great.”
     
“Did you get any information from Steve
Jobs?”
     
“Well, I approached him by a friend of a friend
of a friend of mine”
     
“Oh like LinkedIn network.”
    “Yes some links. He said that the iPhone 5C
and the iPhone 5S are only one type of phone.
If people want to have different colors they can
just get a case.”
“Wow. Thanks grandma, you did an excellent
job”
     
I talked with her until my balance ran out.
     
I finally finished the articles and sent them to
the editor. The titles were as follows:
     
1.
Does Steve Jobs Like the new iPhone?
     
2.
A Black Hole in Hell? Missing Ghosts
     
3.
Ghosts and their Privacy Issues
    They published
the
Steve Jobs
article
as a
cover page. After a week the assistant editor
called me and told me that they had selected
all three articles and would publish them in
subsequent issues. Further than that though,
they offered me a full time position. I was so
excited with the news that I was going back to
work
after
six
months
have having
to
do
freelance
writing.
I
immediately
called
my
wife and told her the news.
    It was all due to my grandma's help. I told her
thank you and to tell her sorry to Steve Jobs
and
that
I wouldn't
have gotten this
job
without his name.
A Month Later
    My second article “A Black Hole in Hell?
Missing Ghosts” was published and became
the hot topic in the city. The article was based
on my attempts to find my friend James who
had
died
in a train derailment
two
years
earlier. Even my