Thanatos
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Last published Wed, Aug 10, 2016
Everything dies. While this truism is morbid, it is a fact of life, the great equaliser, and something that nineteen year-old street artist Chris Kearney learns with brutal finality.
When he joins a bureaucratic league of dead people who collect souls for a living, his old life in the living world refuses to leave him behind. His friend and family, suffering in the aftermath of his sudden death, are caught between mourning him and searching for him.
It just so happens that death might only be the beginning.
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