The Ladies of Horror
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Recreated
by Sue Renol

Even as she was lowered into her final resting place, a finely chosen plot atop the cemetery hill, she knew that would only be the beginning. She prepared for death and readied for it with great scrutiny. No detail had been left unconsidered. Every arrangement had been carefully arranged before her body ceased to live.

Raised as a great student of life, she learned that she must be one of death as well. She studied until she had the knowledge to not only learn it, but master it, to keep its cold hand from taking her from the world.

Each motion performed at her funeral had been planned and carried out just as she had demanded in her will. The inheritance left to certain members of her family and the condition that they conduct it in such a manner—or get nothing—ensured this would be done.

Little did they know they carried out the ritual that would bring her back from death, not only reborn, but recreated entirely. Not quite mortal, not quite a ghost, but something more.

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