The Thing About Ghost Stories
Novelette 8,113 words Recommended by 6 award/anthology sources
Leah studies stories people tell about their own experiences with ghosts. To her it’s all folklore—not real at all—until she gets hints her dead mother wants to talk to her about something.
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Quasar links out; the story lives on Uncanny, where the author gets the click.