Even After Her Death Novels & Stories

Jackson had told him about her increasing popularity at college. “I have worked hard for all that Grandma. Remember? You told me that nothing is impossible. I just need to strive harder. So you see? I did it!” Her grandma nodded knitting her eyebrows, “I didn’t know that!” “Didn’t know what grandma?” she raised an eyebrow looking at her suspiciously, “You don’t seem ok to me, grandma. Do people get sick after they are dead?” “Yes. They do. Especially if they have been sick in this life.”

Her last words were: "See you next time." The funeral was attended by millions. They came from every corner of the world to honor the woman who'd lived through a millennium of history, who'd guided them through centuries of growth, who'd been the living connection to everything they'd built. They laid her to rest in the monument garden, beside the markers for Lerder and Kira and Lyra and Alden and all the others who'd fought in the war. The eternal guardian, finally at rest. Or so they thought. Twenty-Three Years After Elara's Death

"She was dead. Everyone thought she was. Of course they're emotional. It's completely normal after ten years. They have a lot to catch up on." Sophia looked at me steadily. "You've been watching them since she walked in." "Everyone has been watching them," I said. "It's not every day someone comes back from the dead." "That's not what I mean and you know it." I finished the rest of my champagne. "I need another drink. Do you want anything?" "No." She was still standing there with that expression. "I'd just get back to what I was doing." But she lingered another moment like she had more she wanted to say.

She was still there. The End ... for now.

“Damn.” “She didn’t cry. Didn’t scream. Just watched him die. And then… she walked away like she’d finished brushing her teeth.” “She hasn’t said anything about it?” “Not a word. Slept two hours. Then trained until she bled through the wraps.” Caden was quiet for a long beat. “That’s not just vengeance. That’s something else.” “She loved him once,” I said. “And she killed him anyway.” Caden’s eyes flicked to me. “And now?”

And it came with a face so beautiful, I would never forget. Not even after death.

And then she shut her eyes- -knowing she was dead, for a long time. She was dead. To be continued...

Within seconds all pain is gone and my body is fully healed. “Isn’t this the afterlife? And aren’t I dead? I don’t see how I don’t belong here then” “Yes, this is the afterlife but technically you are not entirely dead” she tells me. “What do you mean that I am technically not dead? How can someone be technically not dead? It is either you are or you are not” I start pacing while panicking, if she tells me that I went through all that pain for nothing I will honestly lose it.

She was dying. ...