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Loading... Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #235 (Ninth Anniversary Double-Issue)by Scott H. Andrews (Editor)
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On the Road to the Hell of Hungry Ghosts by Richard Parks - 3*
The title caught my attention. I watched a series on Netflix (Glitch) which had a character try to justify his return from death by thinking he must be a "hungry ghost". From wiki Hungry ghost is a concept in Chinese & Vietnamese Buddhism and Chinese & Vietnamese traditional religion, representing beings who are driven by intense emotional needs ... The understanding is that all people become such a regular ghost when they die, and would then slowly weaken and eventually die a second time. Hungry ghosts, by contrast, are a much more exceptional case, and would only occur in very unfortunate circumstances, such as if a whole family were killed or when a family no longer venerated their ancestors.
You may want to read In Memory Of Jianhong, Snake-Devil in issue 226 first. It's an origin story of the characters in this story.
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The story is set in ancient Japan. A father and daughter make their living as demon hunters for hire. There is a 3rd member of their group now, a snake-devil in human form. (Reason for the human form is given in the above linked story.) They are on their way to a job but they encounter a ghost that latches onto them and their going to have to help it or do an exorcism. They choose
It reminds me a bit of a TV series. You know how the main characters deal with an "issue" for the episode, then the next week it's a different "issue"? This kind of feels like that. I imagine I'll come across the characters again in future issues of BCS and I'll be willing to listen to the story especially if it's the same voice narrator. She did a good job.