You turned the key.
Welcome to the space between.
Most people never find this page. But you noticed the key, and you were curious enough to turn it. That tells us something about you.
From the Founder's Notebook
"I started The Afterlife Story Lab because I couldn't stop writing about dead people. Not morbid. Curious. What do they know that we don't? What would they say if they could? Every project starts with that question. The answers keep surprising me."
Lindsay Clift, somewhere between drafts
Things We Believe But Rarely Say Out Loud
- Every ghost story is really a love story.
- The funniest people in the room are usually the saddest.
- A good story should make you laugh at a funeral.
- If your own work doesn't scare you a little, you haven't gone far enough.
What's Brewing in the Lab
Right now, somewhere in Bristol, there's a notebook filled with funeral director dialogue, a half-finished podcast script about a 75-year-old hacker, and a YA novel that's making its author cry at coffee shops. The lab never sleeps. (The founder sometimes does.)
From the Archive
The following accounts are real. The names have been removed. The experiences have not.
Female, 54 Years
Product of divorce. Only child for much of formative youth, then multiple step-siblings. Seems to have disrupted...
Female, 75 Years
One of five children. Both parents deceased. Never divorced. Father was mentally and physically abusive. Family moved...
Male, 56 Years
Only child. Parents never divorced. Father worked the majority of his youth. No other notable trauma aside from loss of...
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