Three Days Dead

What if you wake up dead and not know it?

Esohe woke up dead, and had no inkling of it.

She went about her routine, noticing glitches here and there - but nothing abnormal enough to bother her. A day later, she saw her friends' WhatsApp stories ringing of "RIP, Esohe". Just at that instance, her boss comes into her office with her replacement.

For the first time in her life (or her death, now), her mind was blown.

Over the next couple of hours, Esohe learnt what it meant to be a dead body. You could see everything, walk, talk, and feel inanimate objects. But no living could hear, see, or talk to you. They could only feel your presence by your interaction with physical objects. You could feel every emotion, remember everything, laugh, but never cry.

She made friends with another dead, Emma, and learnt about the dead life mostly from a deranged dead old lady. The old lady showed Esohe the path of peace everyone had to walk on. That was the second or real death. It was the only way to find peace because your consciousness was blotted out. But Esohe was not ready to 'die again'.

Esohe tried to get back into her family. Her mother did sense her ghost around, and it began to trouble her. Esohe felt the ache and pain she was causing her mother by coming around, but it was the only way she could heal – heal from the pain of never being close to her mother while alive.

When she heard her mother tell her to “find peace", she knew it was time to rest in peace.

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