Family Bonds: Ghost Detective Short Stories, #3
By R.W. Wallace
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Being one of the cemetery's two resident ghosts for three decades can be a lonely existence — even more so when your sole friend disappears for several days.
While waiting for Clothilde's return, Robert decides to greet the newest arrival, an overly polite octagonarian who makes no claims of unfinished business.
But as her story unfurls, it becomes increasingly likely the old lady's affairs and Clothilde's disappearance are closely related — in more ways than one.
Family Bonds is also available in the collection Unfinished Busines, Volume 1.
R.W. Wallace
R.W. Wallace writes in most genres, though she tends to end up in mystery more often than not. Dead bodies keep popping up all over the place whenever she sits down in front of her keyboard. The stories mostly take place in Norway or France; the country she was born in and the one that has been her home for two decades. Don't ask her why she writes in English - she won't have a sensible answer for you. Her Ghost Detective short story series appears in Pulphouse Magazine, starting in issue #9. You can find all her books, long and short, on rwwallace.com.
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Family Bonds - R.W. Wallace
In the Ghost Detective Universe
Ghost Detective Novels
(best read in order)
Beyond the Grave
Unveiling the Past
Beneath the Surface
Piercing the Veil
Ghost Detective Shorts
(all standalone)
Just Desserts
Lost Friends
Family Bonds
Common Ground
Till Death
Family History
Heritage
New Beginnings
Far From Home
Severed Ties
Eternal Bond
Harsh Expectations
Dull Expectations
Ghost Detective Collections
Unfinished Business, Volume 1
Unfinished Business, Volume 2
Family Bonds
A Ghost Detective Short Story
R.W. Wallace
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Contents
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Also By R.W. Wallace
About the Author
Copyright
One
I’ve been feeling terribly lonely lately. Not surprising really, when you live in a cemetery.
I’m usually not the only ghost to haunt this particular ground. Some people come and go as they rise from their urns or caskets, deal with their unfinished business, and leave for what I assume to be a better place.
Two of us have become something of a fixture. Personally, I’ve been here for over thirty years, and have yet to obtain that elusive closure one needs to move on. Clothilde, my moody twenty-year-old companion, has haunted this spot since the mid-eighties. She was here before me.
We usually attend funerals together, greet the new arrivals together. It’s good to be part of a team, to have someone complementary to do the jobs I can’t do. She might behave like a moody teenager, but she’s a good person.
She’s been AWOL for three days.
I don’t think she’s moved on—I honestly think I’d have known about it, both the process of finding the closure, and the fading into nothing part.
No, she’s hiding—and I’m bored.
I think