Wedding Vows
By Leah Cutter
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Wan Ho waits outside the Courthouse of the Dead for...something. Around him, the parade of the formerly living pass into and out of the courthouse, the judge sending them to either one of the various Hells or to the city of the dead to await rebirth. While Wan Ho...waits. Until a stranger approaches and announces that she has come to marry him. A dead man... "Wedding Vows" takes the Chinese tradition of "ghost marriage" to a delightful conclusion. Previously printed in the anthology, "The Death of All Things."
Leah Cutter
Leah Cutter--a Crawford Award Finalist--writes page-turning fiction in exotic locations, such as New Orleans, ancient China, the Oregon coast, ancient Japan, rual Kentucky, Seattle, Minneapolis, Budapest, etc. Find more fiction by Leah Cutter at www.KnottedRoadPress.com. Follow her blog at www.LeahCutter.com.
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Wedding Vows - Leah Cutter
Wedding Vows
Leah R Cutter
Knotted Road Press
Contents
Wedding Vows
Present Time
One Year Earlier
Present Time
About the Author
Also by Leah R Cutter
About Knotted Road Press
Wedding Vows
Present Time
Wan Ho stood outside of the grand courthouse, waiting.
He didn’t know how long he’d been standing there. In the land of the dead, it was difficult to track time. Plus, since he’d died, he’d found he’d lost the impatience of his youth and now could pause and wait like an old man. He didn’t even miss his cell phone—normally when waiting he’d pull it out and play a game, or text his friends, or even watch cat videos.
For now, he merely stood. And waited.
A misty river ran a few yards in front of him, slightly lower than the grassy plane he stood on. The gurgling sound of the water soothed him. The faint scent of sweet incense delightfully filled the air. Though Wan Ho suspected the incense wasn’t being burned for him, by his family still living in Shanghai, he still breathed it in and felt replenished by it.
Every now and again, the mist on the river coalesced. A figure would form, generally an older man or woman, but sometimes a younger person, like himself. They’d shake themselves free of the river and walked up the soft slope to the courthouse, gaining color and shape as they moved, until they looked like Wan Ho, dressed in their finest clothes and nearly alive.
Wan Ho wasn’t certain if any of the new souls could see him.