Leaving the Dead

Leaving the Dead is a collection of eighteen stories about the long slow dance with death and the heartbreak of life—no zombies allowed.

When a writer runs into the ghost of his father who died of Alzheimer's, death has restored his memory, and he's eager to share.
An unlikely couple and an abandoned-seeing eye dog find happiness after everyone else dies.
A college freshman goes home for the holidays with her lover who claims to be a robot—and takes her to an abandoned factory on Christmas Ev...