Graves

Graves (from the short story collection titled Things Left In The Dark)

By M. T. Maliha and narrated by Tracy Collier

Some scents don't fade. They stain.

Nothing triggers a deeper shudder than the cloying smell of lilies—the perfume of the dead. But it isn't just flowers that haunt her; it is the relentless churn of loathing that rots her from the inside out.

Trapped in a cycle of bitter resentment, she watches one expect her to bury its secrets while she's forced to dig up her own. In a quiet place where dirt is fresh and truth heavy, she must finally face the one thing worse than the stench of a funeral: the realization of exactly who—or what—she is mourning.