The Saint Christopher Lights

For those of you who were unaware of it, this story is available online at Rocket Fire Journal.  The Saint Christopher Lights tells the story of a society in the future who has found a way to rid their world of the dead.  Eli, a young man with a curiosity about the dead that friends and family collectively condemn, discovers that regardless of society's attempts to banish the dead from their world, the dead are harder to cast out than expected.

The Saint Christopher Lights,
a short story by Jason Phillip Reeser