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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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Ghost by Mech-x4fan

Chris thought her life couldn't get any worse, losing her mom the night they got into a huge fight, her little sister shutting out the one thing that made her who she was, and the rest of her family acting like they're moving on, but she knows they haven't. So, how can three ghosts who fall into her life, make living easier again? ~ Disclaimers I don't own anything, except chapters I might add that are my own or my character Reese/Chris~ Editing: 15 January 2022

Kiss Me at Midnight by brennaiswriting

He smiled, and my heart started thumping wildly again. "Curiosity killed the cat, you know." He said, his voice soft as velvet. "But the cat also has nine lives... so why not use them?" I smiled back. His blue eyes gazed intensely into mine. My hands started to sweat, and I was suddenly aware of how close he was standing to me. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A New Year's Eve masquerade at a haunted mansion- what could go wrong? Brenna has always loved everything dark and spooky, especially the strange and morbid. But when she's dragged to a party at the local "haunted hotspot", she is thrust into a world she never imagined but always hoped for. A centuries-old curse, secrets, and a love triangle with a ghost? Will this average girl have what it takes to break the curse and solve the mystery of her own heart? (An Open Novella Contest Longlister - 2020) #3 in newyearseve (5/3/2020) #22 in hauntedhouse (5/3/2020)

Losing Logan by SherryFicklin

Normally finding a hot guy in her bedroom wouldn’t irritate Zoe so badly, but finding her childhood friend Logan there is a big problem. Mostly because he’s dead. As the only person he can make contact with, he convinces Zoe to help him put together the pieces surrounding his mysterious death so he can move on. Thrust into his world of ultra popular rich kids, Zoe is out of her element and caught in the cross-hairs of Logan’s suspicious ex-girlfriend and the friends he left behind, each of whom had a reason to want him dead. The deeper they dig to find the truth, the closer Zoe gets to a killer who would do anything to protect his secrets. And that’s just the start of her problems because Zoe is falling for a dead guy.

Zombie Love✔ by kelly4312

*Editing* Sophia's life had been pretty normal up until this point, Of course she's went through the normal teenage drama, her own personal problems with adolescent as well as emotional development with her boyfriend. However, one day she wakes up to find her 'oh so normal life' completely changed. She finds out that her entire state had been taking over by a virus: Zombies, and spreading fast. While trying to survive the horrors of the undead, Sophia is also struggling with her love and the fears of losing him. Will there be a cure? Will their love survive through all the horrors and trouble of zombies? Will they become zombies as well? Will they survive the battle with the undead? How far do you go for the ones you love? Read and find out!

Apartment 239 by elfordalley

Abe Barrett is surrounded by ghosts - some of them are even his roommates! But now Abe's visions show something dark coming, and it wants Abe dead. ***** When Abe Barrett's family died, he started seeing ghosts. Soon he was living with three of them, and it turns out ghosts are just as eccentric as people. Abe is bothered by the ghosts constantly since he doesn't want to solve their murders, avenge them or do much of anything. He just wants to do his job and relax. His dreams, however, have been getting darker as people in town start to disappear. Soon Abe realizes there is something hunting him, and that same threat was involved with his family's deaths. A legacy of darkness is chasing Abe Barrett, and his supernatural roommates may not be enough to save him. [[word count: 60,000-70,000 words]]

Phantom of the Apartment by 8BlueDragons

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The Third Word by kkeraunoss

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Afterlife: Oblivion #Wattys2024 by astronomist

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Ghost

Chris thought her life couldn't get any worse, losing her mom the night they got into a huge fight, her little sister shutting out the one thing that made her who she was, and the rest of her family acting like they're moving on, but she knows they haven't. So, how can three ghosts who fall into her life, make living easier again? ~ Disclaimers I don't own anything, except chapters I might add that are my own or my character Reese/Chris~ Editing: 15 January 2022