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    Dying to Live
    Dying to Live
    Dying to Live
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    Dying to Live

    By Gary Jonas

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    Ghost with a broken heart

    On a dark highway, a creature from the Void confronts a lonely ghost, ready to feed on her memories.

    The ghost is Esther Carmichael, and she's been through so much anguish since she died. She's ready to bid farewell to her existence until the creature awakens something inside her.

    Now she's dying to live.

    Esther is a beloved character from the Jonathan Shade urban fantasy series, and while this short story takes place soon after the events of the novel Timeless Gods, you don't need to have read the books to enjoy the ride. However, if you have read the Shade books, you definitely don't want to miss this one.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDenton & White
    Release dateFeb 23, 2018
    ISBN9781386285533
    Dying to Live
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    Gary Jonas

    Gary Jonas is the author of the Jonathan Shade fantasy series, the novel One Way Ticket to Midnight, the story collection Quick Shots, and the novella Night Marshal: A Tale of the Undead West, the first in a new vampire western series that will be penned by various authors. His short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines. Gary was born in Japan and has since lived in Ohio, Florida, Oklahoma, and Colorado, where he now resides.

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      Dying to Live - Gary Jonas

      DYING TO LIVE

      by Gary Jonas

      There are few things as powerful in the world as a ghost with a broken heart. Most are trapped in loops, and other than causing the occasional fright, they don’t interact with the world because they’re lost in their grief. The Lovelorn Lady of the Galvez Hotel in Galveston waited for her lover to return from the sea, only to learn that his ship went down in a storm with all hands lost. She hanged herself in room 501 and haunts the hotel to this day. Sadly, her lover arrived at the hotel a few days after her death.

      Or we can look to the Lady in the Lake of Rochester, New York who still wanders the park searching for the body of her dead daughter.

      And then there’s the Lady in White from St. Augustine, Florida who died on the way to her wedding and was buried in her flowing white dress and is even now trying to make it to the altar.

      But Esther Carmichael was an enigma wrapped in the impossible. According to official records, she was born in 1900, lived an ordinary life, and died of a heart attack in 1963. She was buried in a cemetery in Cold Spring, New York where her body returned to dust and the grave remained undisturbed.

      The official reports made no mention of her brush with magic in the 1920s when she met a man named Jonathan Shade. They also made no mention of the way things originally went down.

      Because Esther Carmichael—the original, the one who mattered to the Darkness—was born in 1900, committed suicide in 1929, existed as a ghost for 107 years then faded out of being as she was born in

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