Ghosted

By Linda Niehoff

Gabe waits for Caitlin to show up at his window. Even though she died three nights ago.

Ghosted is a stand alone short story and can also be found in the collection The Ghost You Know.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dread Moon Press
• Release date: Jun 23, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215979914

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Ghosted

Ghosted

A Short Story

Linda Niehoff

Dread Moon Press

Copyright © 2023 by Linda Graziano-Niehoff

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Ghosted

When Caitlin first came to my window, I was expecting her. I know you won’t believe that. She’d been dead for three days by then. She was lying down at Gladstone’s Funeral Home, and as far as I knew, she was still right there in the visitation room by the window.

When you go by Gladstone’s at night, there’s always a light on. I never knew which room it came from until two days ago. I’d never been inside before. And then all of us, me and the boys, were standing in there with everyone else from school in that horrible room made up of wood paneling and berber carpet. You at least expect a funeral home to look expensive. I don’t know why.

Maybe because you don’t want to send someone off from somewhere shabby. Hospitals have their clean white