Short Story: QWERTYUIOP - Summary

• The short story QWERTYUIOP describes a young secretary's struggle with the spirit of her predecessor, Miss Broome.
• Miss Broome was the previous longtime secretary of Mr Bannister.
• At 17, Lucy Beck wanted a job desperately to move away from her mother.
• When she graduated from the Belmont Secretarial College, things did not look good.
• She had always been at the bottom of her class and her usually upbeat principal, Mrs Price, did not hold out much hope for her being successful at a job.
• However, Lucy did get a job as a secretary at Ross and Bannister's.
• On her first day, she realised that the position came with some baggage.
• The ghost of Miss Broome was determined to be around to haunt her typewriter.
• Only Harry Darke knew about this and he hinted it to Lucy.
• At first, no matter what she tried to type, Lucy could not finish her work because the letters QWERTYUIOP kept popping up on the paper.
• When she finally realised that she was powerless to complete her work, she reconciled with Miss Broome's spririt. This was by communicating with the spirit through the electric typewriter.
• Finally, she managed to get rid of the spirit by typing a goodbye letter to Miss Broome.