Mother Ghost

By Bonnie Elizabeth

Babies need a lot. They keep their parents up at night. Alison feels like she's being sucked dry. No energy. No emotion. 

 

Her family tries to help but she's alone with the baby. A baby who won't stop crying, except when the shadow woman appears. 

 

Alison wants to care. She wants a life. She wants to feel love but she can't quite do it. Is the answer in the otherworld?

 

Mother Ghost is an emotional short story about a woman who finds help for her postpartum depression in a most unusual manner. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: My Big Fat Orange Cat Publishing
• Release date: Mar 20, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386724964

Bonnie Elizabeth

Bonnie Elizabeth could never decide what to do, so she wrote stories about amazing things and sometimes she even finished them. While rejection stung her so badly in person, she spent most of her young life talking to cats and dogs rather than people, she was unusually resilient when it came to rejections on her writing, racking up a good number of them. Floating through a variety of jobs, including veterinary receptionist, cemetery administrator, and finally acupuncturist, she continued to write stories. When the internet came along (yes, she’s old), she started blogging as her cat, because we all know cats don’t notice rejection. Then she started publishing. Bonnie writes in a variety of genres. Her popular Whisper series is contemporary fantasy and her Teenage Fairy Godmother series is written for teens. She has published in a number of anthologies and is working on expanding her writing repertoire. She lives with her husband (who talks less than she does) and her three cats, who always talk back. You can find out more about her books at her publisher, My Big Fat Orange Cat Publishing.

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Mother Ghost

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Mother Ghost

About Bonnie Elizabeth General

Also by Bonnie Elizabeth

All characters and events in the book are the work of the author’s imagination and any resemblance to any persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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Mother Ghost

My Big Fat Orange Cat

Dark Fantasy, March 2017

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Copyright 2017

Bonnie Elizabeth Koenig

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Cover Copyright © fairytale design , Bonnie Koenig, and Deposit Photo

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Mother Ghost

Alison rocked back and forth in the chair, the squeak not even audible above the screams of the baby in the crib only two steps away. Fists raised and fell and feet pumped against air that didn’t offer whatever was needed.

There was a time, Alison reflected, that she had taken joy in shopping for cribs, joy in the idea of having a baby. She’d been thrilled to find the perfect white crib with a matching dresser and changing table. She’d even found a white rocker that had fit her body. She’d loved the bumper and sheets, the printed blanket, all white with yellow, green, and lavender cats, dogs and bunnies. Now, she thought everything looked gray in the midmorning half-light and perhaps just a little bit soiled.