Based on the prompt 'One of the hard things about adjusting to the afterlife, if you still have your most recent life's memories, is letting go. I'd like a story exploring that.' from ysabetwordsmith.
Nathan knew he needed to move on. Everyone else had, so it was just him clinging onto what had been and Aras, his spirit guide, had slowly been reducing the time he was permitted to spend watching the family he'd left behind. When he'd first died, he hated thinking that word but that was what he'd done and he needed to get used to it, he'd spent all his time watching his wife and children. He'd spent three Earth weeks continously watching them live their lives, including witnessing his own funeral. Then Aras had walked into his house and told him that he was wasting his afterlife. Nathan had laughed at him. Watching his family was the only thing he could imagine doing.
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