Resurrection

Alex Payne would do anything to bring his wife back from the depths of her watery grave. But when a voodoo mambo offers her help, he soon realizes that turning back the tides of life comes not without its repercussions. Word count 80, 290Excerpt:The unglamorous side of a town's underbelly shows more keenly once the sun goes down. For every hour thereafter, another of the city's morally degraded malcontents trades in his anonymous existence for a shot at utopia by maintaining a perpetual high at the cost of some foolish lamb, devoid of the good sense to come in out of the dark.
What passes as a pleasant square, teaming with the colors of life by day, seems all but condemned in shadows of gray, having surrendered itself to the night. Such was the gloom that matched my disposition on the eve of my eternity.