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The Soul in the Bell Jar

K. J. Kabza

First published November 2013
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

In a world where souls have physical reality and the soul departing a human body leaves merely a smear of "ghostgrease" as bodily remains, a young girl comes to stay with her elderly uncle, who is obsessed with extending human lifespans by stitching souls to bodies.

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