If ghosts suffered with autocorrect

High concept from the Hairpin's Mallory Ortberg: "Text-messages from a ghost:"

hey im gaunting you ok
Do you mean haunting
yeah sorry i don’t have any fingers
so im poltergeisting a stick to help me text this
Who is this?
oh sorry im a ghost
So do you live inside this phone
yeah kind of

Text Messages From a Ghost (via Making Light)

(Image: Ghost Dance Texture, a Creative Commons Attribution (2.0) image from oddsock's photostream)

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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Poor ghosts will have to use Blackberries.
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Android users don’t get this article.
- AnthonyC
  
  It happens to us to, just less bad.
Jorpho

The equal sign is missing from the link tag.
http://thehairpin.com/2012/02/text-messages-from-a-ghost/
http://botaday.com mmrtnt

Jorpho… thank you.
http://twitter.com/snarp Sarah Pin

There’s also a sequel:
http://thehairpin.com/2012/04/the-return-of-ghost
EarthtoGeoff

On a day when I woke up to finding my car had gotten keyed, these little ghost stories were a much-needed highlight. Delightful!
http://mordicai.livejournal.com Mordicai

I read this when it was in the Hairpin & immediately went out & Twitter followed the author.
disky00

The dialogue and theme sound exactly like pictures for sad children.

http://archive.picturesforsadchildren.com/
Bodhipaksa

I’ve noticed that the supreme architect of the universe chooses rather imprecise methods to communicate with the faithful — methods such as pareidolic shapes on toast, condensation on windows, gut feelings, weather patterns, etc. These methods are open to skepticism and are imprecise (is God smiting the US with droughts because of teh gays or because people keep voting Republican?) If He’s omnipotent and omnipresent, why doesn’t he just text people? Or use email? Or appear on prime-time television on every channel simultaneously? One has to wonder if He’s a bit of a luddite.
pjcamp

So do you live inside this phone

yeah kind of
im stuck in here until I admit Samsung didnt do anything
Bill Galloway

Looking at its tone of voice and lack of capitalization, seems it’s the ghost of Roast Beef Kazenzakis. Haunting a cell phone is perfectly apt for him, if it was a less-popular model with a leaky battery.
brainflakes

Fake, autocorrect would have replaced im with “I’m”