Gods and Graves

Gods and Graves

Author: Katie May Listening Length: 11h 6m
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What do you do when you have no identity, no name, no past? You create one. For as long as I can remember, I’ve been trapped in a minuscule room. All I know is the monotonous routine of reaping souls and then returning to my prison. And pain. Lots of pain. Everything changes when I’m compelled to reap the souls of an...

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“ L isa, you bitch! How could you cheat on José with José’s twin brother? And José! How could you impregnate Lisa’s mother?” I scream at the television screen—some sappy Spanish soap opera centering around a dysfunctional, and a slightly incestuous, family.

It’s been an entire hour since I’ve been called away to reap a soul. My last one was a ninety-five-year-old woman on death’s bed. I’d been gentle with her, offering her my hand and pulling her into my embrace. I didn’t want her to see the dagger, so I quite literally stabbed her in the back.