Incense Offerings

It's been five years, and I finally got a call from Mom.

Crying on the other end, she said she missed me and regretted all the wrongs she'd done to me over the years. She asked me to come home for the New Year.

I never expected that, at the age of fifty, Mom had given birth to a little brother for me!

But my little brother is dead, and his funeral hall is set up in the bedroom.

That's how I discovered the cause of my older sister's death a few years ago.

On New Year's Eve, I died unjustly, and my vengeful spirit refused to depart.