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Afterthought is a short story about a ghost who is caught between two different worlds. There is a longing to protect the one still left behind and let their loved one know they're truly not alone, but also a pull to go on to rest.

This is a short story about a girl named Lily and her sitter Miss Anne.

“I am on a diplomatic mission from the Kingdom of Understanding,” said the piper who had indeed parachuted into the warm, damp, and fructose core of a gigantic plantation. “I understand your kingdom is suffering from an infestation.” This is a new telling of the "Pied Piper of Hamelin"

In a small and gloomy town, Fern is trying to find out who is causing this long spree of murders recently. Once Janet, Fern's little sister is murdered, the fight is on.

On many occasions, Raleas had caught her mother crying, curled up on her bed or in a corner somewhere in the mansion. Sometimes after one of their countless fights, but mostly during the long, long months of her father's absence. Every time Raleas hadn't hesitated to rip into her mother. Tell her how pathetic and weak she was.