Don't sit up too fast. Being dead will really take it out of you.
Sorry. I guess I should have eased into that reveal a bit. I just started on the welcome committee and you're my first arrival so congratulations and condolences are both in order.
Oh, well. You were going to notice sooner or later.
Yeah, this is really how it ends.
No, it isn't fair.
Yes, I know you had more you wanted to do. To say. To be or not to be.
No, you can't go back.
It does suck, but there's a bright side.
Wanna fly?
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Maia Gadwall the metAlchemist
I fell in love with speculative fiction and poetry many years ago, but I have precious little time to write any. Then, I went crazy and started a cult called metAlchemy, or meta alchemy. I revere energy of all brands, esp. good, kind chaos.
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