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About the Author: Stephanie Bedwell-Grime has had more than thirty novels and novellas published as well as over fifty shorter works. She has been nominated five times for the Aurora, a national Canadian writing award and has also been an EPIC eBook Award finalist.
Marlow ran the only funeral parlor in town. He wasn’t very good at it.
He hated everything about the dead. The way they groaned jerked and farted, brazenly releasing the gases trapped inside them.
Worst of all was the constant reminder that one day it would be him on the cold slab.
So when Marlow turned up on the slab, Dead-Marlow was hardly surprised. The town, however, was shocked.
Dead-Marlow surveyed his corpse and thought, Well, damn. Didn’t expect to be here quite so soon.
He was attended to by his second in command, Doris, a dour woman who ran the funeral parlor far better than Marlow ever had. If he’d sold out to her years ago, he likely wouldn’t be in this predicament. Still, it had been his father’s business, a ready-made job that came without hefty student loans. He hadn’t really wanted a career in funeral services, but he also didn’t want to bail on the family craft.
The detective who came to investigate Marlow’s untimely demise was young. Too young in Dead-Marlow’s opinion. Not only was he dead, they’d sent a child to investigate. Surely his sudden shuffling off of his mortal coil deserved someone with more experience.
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