[Ink on found cardboard with digital embellishments and colors. 2019.]

Being spooky can be exhausting! Old Charlie, the ghost, feels like he's been trying REALLY hard lately to haunt the house where he's floated for decades, but everyone is taking pills to get to sleep lately, so they snore right through his nightly moaning and chain rattling. He hovers near their bed, trying to get them to toss and turn, but to no avail.

He's even considered haunting during daylight hours---but ghosts are notoriously difficult to see in sunlight. (We all know this. Has something to do with light refraction or something. I can't remember. It's been too long since my last physical science class...)

Poor Charlie.

Remember, in these trying times, that the GHOSTS have a job to do. If you can, try to learn to ACT scared in your sleep. Maybe flip and flop a bit, and wake up and scream every now and then. It doesn't take much to make a ghost feel needed, and we should all do our part! Got it!? Good!

---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)