By Kelley Davidson, Graduate Assistant, Bluegrass Writers Studio
A Conversation Between Me and The Ghost of Zelda Fitzgerald*
Last week I summoned one of my favorite women on my Ouija board. I didn’t think there was anyone else who could better help me continue the conversation about the connections between mental illness and creativity than one of the Jazz Age’s craziest, coolest deceased writers: Zelda Fitzgerald.
Zelda did not appreciate my Ouija board; calling it a “muddled middle-man.” Instead, she danced the Charleston through the veil between the living and the dead and conversed with me about writing, depression, and untapped potential.
Zelda’s ghost was a lot like her former corporeal self: razor-thin, quick-witted, and totally drunk. She made a few remarks re: the gaudy décor in my bedroom and after she thoroughly hurt my feelings, we got down to business.