Mortuary Stories

From a tender age, Faith Caldas has possessed the power to glimpse through the veil between life and death. But what happens when the veil won't close? When her life han...

When twenty-three-year-old Kinsley Wyatt failed out of nursing school, she decided to pursue her plan B, mortuary school. As she's starting up her clinicals at a local f...

A feel-good collection of short stories and oneshots about a warm but intimidating funeral director, her troubled, slightly neurotic funeral assistant/foster daughter, a...

Moving is a hassle, especially when it's a cliché old house with an abundance of dark rooms to keep track of. Had pretty bad writers block, but anyways, happy October!

Being a mortuary technician isn't an easy job at the best of the time, but twenty-five year old Amy is about to get distinctly more than she signed up for.

Welcome to a world of blood and gore, with demons and vampires and angels galore... The flu had always been a penetrable foe in the past, but the latest strain came fro...

You've moved to a new city with a career change and an empty flat, ready to start over from a life of running and fighting. Sure, working at a mortuary may be morbid, bu...

This is a short story inspired by a Twitter convo about how to preserve dead bodies. (This is more of a humorous take than a practical guide.) Not sure what more needs t...

Paul takes you to visit his mother's grave in her birthday in order to introduce the two of you and open up about his grief.

By the age of nineteen, Faye de Acastre was much more familiar with scalpels and innards than any person should be, especially as a woman. Faye and her father own the...

This story is set in the early 80s. Anna Flores has always wanted to become a doctor ever since she was a little girl. she's been in college for a few years and she was...

Charlotte is a funeral director/mortician. She lives a lonely life, in which the only friends of hers are the dead she sees when she sleeps. At first she was a skeptic a...