Broken Hearted Ghoul by Joyce and Jim Lavene Guest Post

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Joyce and Jim Lavene write bestselling mystery fiction. They have written and published more than 60 novels for Harlequin, Berkley, and Charter Books along with hundreds of non-fiction articles for national and regional publications. They live in rural North Carolina with their family, Quincy, their black cat, and their rescue dog, Rudi.

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Skye Mertz – Zombie

From Broken Hearted Ghoul

By Joyce and Jim Lavene

My name is Skye Mertz, and I’m a zombie.

Whew! That was a load off my mind. Just saying it sometimes makes a difference, you know?

I’m not the brain-eating kind of zombie. I don’t shuffle, or lose body parts. I used to be a Nashville Police Officer. My husband, Jacob, and I were killed in a terrible wreck one night. It was too late to save him, but I had a chance to stay here for twenty years with our five-year-old daughter, Kate. I took it.

My life is weird—raising Kate with the help of the ghost of my mother-in-law, Addie.

I drive a big, white van, the Taxi for the Dead, and pick up people who are at the end of their twenty-year cycle of life after death. Sometimes, they’re accountants, doctors, or lawyers. They do what my boss, Abraham Lincoln Jones, needs them to. He puts a tattoo on the bottom of their foot—a pale blue, stylized A in a circle.

It’s old magic. Abe has been around for more than two-hundred years. He was a zombie slave to a voodoo priestess, and did all kinds of terrible things for her. He killed her to get away, and now shares his life force with others to make amends.

Sometimes, the people I’m supposed to pick up aren’t ready to die. Who can blame them? They try to run or hide. It’s my job to find them, and bring them back.

I wondered why it mattered for the last two years—I’m sorry I finally found out. Believe me, you don’t want to see someone who has changed after their twenty years is up!

I’m just trying to get by, like everyone else. I want to do what’s right for Kate. I want to keep her safe. I worry about when it comes time, and I have to tell her about the contract I signed with Abe. I wonder how she’ll take it. I hope she’ll understand that it was worth it to stay with her.