made me think

I read this ghost story the other day (Christmas present) A man comes home and is upset, picking up things all over his house and crying over them. As he rambles on you find that he just came home from the funeral of a loved one, his girlfriend. He goes on about how he doesn't want to walk in front of a certain mirror, because it was hers and might retain her reflection or essence. He's so upset, he decides to go back to her grave. On her gravestone, the epitaph says,

"She loved, was loved and died."

He cries some more then irrationally decides he will spend the rest of the day and all night crying on her grave. He then realises if he stays sitting there for too long, someone will see him and escort his out of the graveyard.

The man walks around other graves. As it starts to grow dark he stops. On the closest grave he reads,
"Here lies Peter Green.
A good man, a good son. He worked hard and loved his family."
He decides to sit there for a while, later falling asleep. When he wakes up, its totally dark, i mean like cant see the trees in front of him. so he stands up and stumbles around for a while, knocking the graves, til he gives up and sits back down on the tombstone he fell asleep on. Soon he feels this a-rumbling a-coming from his nether regions and realises the tombstone underneath him is moving. Panicking, he moves and hides being the nearest gravestone. The tombs owner slowly comes out of the ground. The man watches in horror as his half rotted body comes out and then sits on top his own grave. He watches as the corpse reads his own epitaph. The man, Peter Green, then starts to scratch out what was written and over the top he writes,
"Here lies Peter Green. A wretched soul, he lied, stole and cheated all."
At that moment the hiding man sees that most of the graves are stirring. Quickly he stands up and runs until he finds his previous lovers grave. With out seeing her face he recognises her dress. Walking slowly, he approaches her as she finishes writing,

"Out in the rain while trying to deceive her lover, she caught pneumonia and died."


The best story in the whole book.