Crossing at the Bronze Bell

He is the last night watchman at a mortuary in a mass graveyard. The living fear the aura of death around him, but the dead follow the sound of his copper bell and tell him the secrets they’ve kept their whole lives. A murdered pregnant woman, children who were kidnapped and killed…

Every ghost’s dying request is a regret they never had the chance to voice. He silently fulfills their last wishes, until one day he receives a copper bell identical to the one he carries…

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