The Last Burp of a Very Good Woman — Dean Wesley Smith

Mary did her best in her small restaurant to keep everything just perfect. She swept and cleaned constantly and didn't much like crude behavior near her. And everyone knew of her bad stomach. But now even a handful of Tums couldn't help Mary do what she needed to do to move forward.

Bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith has sold over ninety novels and hundreds of short stories. His very first published novel in 1988 was a ghost story, and he's written a great deal of them since then.

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The Yellow of the Flickering Past
Ghosts of the Garden Lounge
Growing Pains of the Dead
A Vanilla Three-Way with a Cherry
Our Slaying Song Tonight