Tag Archive

Marta Skrabacz

Grief Ghost

Grief Ghost

Marta Skrabacz, Scum, June 2018

'I was texting a dead person, a ghost, and there was no point waiting for a response. I blocked her and then unblocked her. I put her on mute and pretended she didn’t exist...We all text dead people sometimes. To others, we might be the dead people they text.'

A memoir essay on the grief of being ghosted by someone you love intensely. Images of Vita Sackville-West and lines drawn from her correspondence with Virginia Woolf haunt the piece, a spectral ideal of mutually requited desire that lies beyond the writer’s reach.

Read more

The Circular is a project of The Sydney Review of Books. We’re supported by the Australia Council’s Sector Recovery Initiative fund.

We send a weekly newsletter featuring the most interesting, useful and surprising recent non-fiction published by and about Australian writers.

We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the lands on which we work, the Burramattagal people of the Darug nation, and pay our respects to elders past, present, and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded, and the struggles for justice are ongoing. We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the lands this digital platform reaches.