Lira and the touch of death

After the crash that took everything, there was only St. Jude's.A cold house at the end of a long road. A place for children no one comes back for, where the sisters keep to their rounds, the doors stick shut at night, and the new girl is told, again and again, not to mind the noises in the walls.Fifteen-year-old Lira minds the noises.Ever since the accident, she has been able to see the dead — an...