Is There Anybody There?

‘SO, WHAT happens now?” Jodie asked. This whole ghost thing was a new experience. Well, it would be. It wasn’t like people tried it once then went back to their old lives. Once you’d passed over, that was it. Your spirit presumably had to find a new role for itself.

Finding herself standing in front of Saint Peter at the Pearly Gates had been a bit of an eye-opener. She was very glad she’d floated up rather then down. But it was the sheer fact that she was dead that surprised her as she hadn’t been expecting it.

“You were in a car crash, weren’t you?” Saint Peter said.

“Um . . .”