Sometimes a dead person has unfinished business to complete before they can move onto the next life. And sometimes that business is just too hard to manage. A short-short Halloween story for adults. This was written originally as a performance piece for Word Jazz, an event of SnowValley Writes!

Kathleen Gabriel has been telling stories since she was a child, though she rarely writes about robot girls anymore. She's had three novels published. She is a graduate of the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop.

Kathleen is a member of SnoValley Writes! in the Snoqualmie Valley near Seattle, Washington where she lives with her husband and a confident mutt.