The Processing

by Miss Liz

In a world where the afterlife has been industrialized, souls are processed, sorted, and reassigned by a vast bureaucracy that no one questions. A clerk in the Department of Transitions begins to notice discrepancies — souls that shouldn't be here, memories that don't match their files, and a growing sense that the system is not what it claims to be. And then she finds her own file, stamped with a date she can't remember.