Touch

by Claire North

[wyvernfriend]

What if when you die you keep going, you inhabit other people's bodies with a touch. What if you're not the only one. What if some of you abused the privilege. What if one of the abusers decides to help the people who want to eliminate this and all you want to do is keep living.

This is told from the perspective of one of these ghosts. A person who spends their live moving from person to person, exploring different lives and different bodies and trying to live as much as possible before moving on, often conscious of how they're depriving people of living their own lives, and also aware that many people are on cruise control through chunks of their lives and this can be used as a path for a ghost.

Kepler, as our ghost is known, has lived many lives, been in many bodies and barely remembers their own when they died of violence, but now they have to survive and it's a tough job.

This was interesting and I really recommend it.