After a yelling match with his dad, teenaged Kevin went skiing and suffered a fatal accident. Since his death seven months ago, he has quickly adjusted to the afterlife in Nirvanaville -spending time with his girlfriend Nicole in a heavenly world of singing flowers, talking pets, and endless games.
His idyllic lifestyle is shattered when he volunteers to deliver a letter to his girlfriend's mother on Earth. A motorcycle crash lands him in jail and puts him face-to-face with Morty, a menacing "dweller" who prefers to spend the afterlife wreaking havoc on humankind.
Stripped of his powers, Kevin cannot return to Nirvanaville until he takes care of "unfinished business" - repairing the fragile relationship with his father. Convincing his dad-who is also the prosecuting attorney in Kevin's trial-that he's come back from the dead won't be easy. And if they can't reconcile their differences . . . Kevin will be stuck down on Earth forever.
I sat in my friend’s kitchen, cup of coffee in hand, as we talked about death. I suppose that wasn’t unusual given my fascination with the afterlife, but that day our conversation hit closer to home. We had discovered that both of our fathers had ...
I was 12 years old when I first discovered the world of Paganism and Witchcraft. I had been raised in a household that cherished and honored the mysterious and the spiritual, and though I lived an ocean away from my father, his mystical, animistic Balinese spirituality was ever-present in my life. I was that child who found solace in the tangled... read this article