A Message for Julia by R A Sunter

The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast

Tony Walker

Science Fiction, Fiction, Drama

4.9 • 835 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Jean-Pierre Ducharme and Ms. Esmeralda Spinoza are experts in the delicate architecture of the séance. Inside the stillness of Julia Silverman’s game room, they prepare to reach across the divide for a daughter lost four months prior. It is a space of flickering candles, soft whispers, and the heavy weight of a mother’s grief. But as the circle joins hands, the atmosphere begins to curdle. The familiar rituals start to feel unpredictable, and a coldness settles that no draft can explain. They have spent years navigating the boundaries of the unknown, but tonight, those boundaries are no longer holding. "A Message for Julia" was first broadcast on The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast in January 2025. Roy Sunter is a New Hampshire-based author. Roy Sunter’s primary body of work can be found at Studio 8, with earlier archives located at ArcanumCafe. He writes under the handle "sasha"—the Russian diminutive of his middle name, Alexander. His ongoing "chapbook" at Studio 8 features a collection of spontaneous prose, much of it in the zuihitsu style, alongside his photography. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Everybody dies, don't they?
0:09.3	Everybody come back, isn't that?
0:13.5	You tried to get into the locked drawer today, didn't you?
0:17.7	How do the dead come back, mother?
0:20.2	What's the secret?
0:22.0	A message for Julia by R.A. Santa.
0:26.6	Part one, par de tro.
0:29.6	What about your fee?
0:31.5	Were it not for the subtle, almost imperceptible pronunciation of what as vaught,
0:37.4	the faint suggestion of a German accent would have been unnoticeable.
0:41.7	She held her coffee cup with both hands, while balancing the saucer primly in her lap,
0:47.0	and looked inquiringly at her guests.
0:50.0	Mr. Duchamp placed his now empty cup in the saucer he held with his other hand.
0:55.3	There's no need to get into that now, Mrs. Silverman.
0:58.6	First, let's see if we are successful in our attempt, he smiled.
1:04.3	We can discuss such matters then.
1:07.0	Do you really think, I mean, is this really possible?
1:12.9	Do you have a sense, any idea if she will?
1:20.9	She was able to hide neither the desperate hopefulness motivating the question, nor the doubt, preventing its completion.
1:26.7	She still held the coffee cup in her hands, as if just to give them something to do. Mr. Douchard said his own cup and saucer
1:30.3	on a low table before him. We can offer no guarantees, Mrs. Silverman. The spirits can only be
1:37.0	invited, not commanded, to appear. He smiled again in reassurance. However, we have had great success in reuniting our clients with their departed loved ones. There's no reason to suppose we shall be any less so here. Mrs. Spinoza had not yet touched her own coffee, but instead appeared to be listening to something the others could not hear.
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