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From Joe's writing

He was floating over the bed, staring down at Marnie and Lillian and his own body. He looked dead. Well, of course he looked dead, because he was dead. It was a very strange feeling.

— Next Time is Now, from Eventual Beginnings: Stories Short and Longer