Cemetery Stories

"We plant forget-me-nots on the graves with no names," I say. "So someone remembers." Emi doesn't look up from the epitaph she's carving. "Dead or alive," she says. "We won't forget." They feel the life, care for the dead. And learn what it means to be remembered.

The dead don't frighten Bob Turner. It's the living he worries about. Bob Turner is a cemetery groundskeeper - steady, ordinary, the kind of man who fixes what's in front of him and doesn't make a fuss. But when the ghosts of long‑dead soldiers begin appearing along his evening rounds, Bob becomes the one person they trust to carry their last stories home. He never asked for this. He certainly never wanted it. But he listens - because someone has to. As Memorial Day approaches, Bob finds himself caught between the quiet life he's built with his wife Janet and daughter Patty, and the unfinished business of men who never made it back. Each encounter pulls him deeper into a history he never lived but now shoulders with a quiet, stubborn grace. A grounded, intimate story about ordinary duty, unexpected burdens, and the small acts of courage that keep the living and the dead connected.

It's a short and spooky story about a group of paranormal investigators who are exploring a cemetery when things go wrong.

A young man finds himself digging up not only a body but the secrets buried with it. John Bertram has known that the supernatural world existed along side his own for long time but little did he think that he'd have to get right at the heart of it to save himself and his associates.

This story follows the life of a young woman named Abigail whose world is heavily affected and changed after she meets beings known as kalman väki, meaning "death folk", a type of spirit in Finnish folklore. Abigail struggles with herself as she tries to discover the nature and reality of those she meets along her path and faces the truths and lies of life and death and what lies beyond. Some characters and storylines are influenced by real people in the author's life. Permission has been given by those people. Any likeness to other characters or people is coincidental and unintentional. All characters are copyright by the author and those involved in the creation of the characters and storyline.

Sometimes you're just not ready for fall to end, or the people.

"Rules of Grave Robbing" is a darkly humorous, satirical guide presented as an insider's manual from the perspective of a self-described "wealth recovery personnel" (a euphemism for graverobber).

This poignant and introspective poem explores the emotional turmoil of unrequited love and the sense of unworthiness. Through vivid metaphors and imagery, the speaker likens their heart to a cemetery where hopes and dreams are laid to rest. The allusion to Oliver Twist underscores a longing for relief from past pains. As a servant in love's household, the speaker endures a cycle of fleeting hope and enduring despair, ultimately recognizing the futility of seeking grace in a world where love is seen as a "rich man's game." The poem reflects on the harsh realities of love's inequities and the sorrow of knowing one's place.

𝐅𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐊𝐄𝐍𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐈𝐍 | "i have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. if i cannot satisfy the one, i will indulge the other" ━━ jason todd is pretty sure he died. he remembers the joker, his mother, the bomb ticking, the explosion. he remembers dying. that's why he's confused when he wakes up one day, breathing, heart pumping, and buried six feet under. he's alive. and he doesn't know how. let alone why. but one things for certain, he needs to climb his way out of this grave before he experiences death twice. 𝒐𝒓... in which, you find someone crawling out of their grave and nearly have a heart attack. ━━ fem!reader / jason todd semi-follows red hood: utrh (comic vers.) not based on the movie frankenstein 2025 lowercase intended ━━ unedited for the time being ( © floricita on wattpad & on ao3 )

When Catrina's mom suddenly dies, her father decides to move to a small town in the South to cope with the loss. And he's decided to move into the one house that is inside of the cemetery. To make matters worse, Catrinas father is the new groundskeeper. Because of his occupation, Catrina is teased at school for being a 'freak', mostly by the populars, Rebecca and the handsome Jaidon. But on the night of the Homecoming game, a tragedy strikes the small town, and Jaidon is nowhere to be found. As Catrina discovers clues to his disappearance, she gets thrown into a world she never knew existed. But what happens if love in one world can't work in the other?

Sometimes forgiving yourself is more difficult than forgiving others.

Tony is visiting Kate's grave on a rainy day and gets a surprise visitor thanks to his redheaded Director.

How much hurt can a person's death cause in so many hearts? Can it have the effect to forget happiness? Will it break a whole family? Will it ruin a first love? Adah' thinks it's time to move on from her mother's death. The problem is it's really hard to do so. Her father is taking this nth times harder than her and is slowly turning worse and worse. Another problem is two gorgeous hunks recently move in her neighborhood. On her last year of school, she wants to get that scholarship to Yale. Is this a decent time to even think of dating? Also if she dates, her father wants him to be the same race as her. Trusting The Lord to guide her through her many problems, read through Adah's point of view and discover the many different meanings of happiness and love.

Ashlyn who works at a small flower shop has a CEO for a regular customer. But when she meets outside work, she is selected as his girlfriend and life changes for her as she warms up the handsome yet cold man.

Charlotte, a 13 year old girl, who is forced to move to Austin, Texas with her mother. Peculiar things happen when you leave your friends all alone. Charlotte has to face the worse for leaving her friends, Grace and Madonna , and shouldn't complain or she'll die.

I dabble in cemetery photography in my free time. It's peaceful in the bone yard.

After drinking red wine to try to cure his insomnia, Desperaux's dreams suddenly turn to reality, and he ends up fighting off a witch who used to have a crush on him (and still does). Desperaux's feelings determine a lot in the end.

"Jack works as a grave digger. It isn't much, but it's something. He watches as the girl he's always loved gets put into the ground from an unfortunate death. One night she comes back and asks for his help and learns the truth of her death. Was it accidental?" NOTE: This is unedited and all rights are reserved to me, Kina S. Boyett. You may find my Facebook page here https://www.facebook.com/100lives?ref=bookmarks Everything is Unedited. This story was created as a personalized story for close friends.