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After Life

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Parts 12
Time 1h 7m

Zoey Hungerman has aspirations, all of which revolve around outdoing her brilliant, graduated-at-the-top-of-his-class-in-Cornell older brother. She's gunning for the spotlight in her family by excelling in Oxford law school, but her ability to see ghosts puts a wedge in her plans when she moves into an apartment with three of them. The worst part? They won't stop cooking in the kitchen.

An unlikely bond forms between the four house mates, but when Caleb, the quiet and mysterious one of the lot, unceremoniously barges into her life, Zoey is unable to avoid being drawn into the boundary between life and death. And she's about to realise that there are lessons about life to be learned from the dead, albeit at a painful cost.

An Open Novella Contest 2020 Entry, based on Prompt #43: The ghosts in my house wouldn't be so bad if they could just stop trying to cook.

Genres: New Adult, Romance, Paranormal HumourAll Rights Reserved

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