Cheat (Karma Inc. book 1)
““Yes. Dead.”
“Like dead, dead?”
“There is no more dead, than dead.”
“Then why am I talking and standing and shit?”
“Welcome to Afterlife.”
“Why do you say it like that?”
“Like what?”
“Welcome to afterlife. Shouldn’t it be the afterlife, as in a place? Like the Great Beyond, or some other crap like that.”
“Well, it is a place, but a proper noun. You wouldn’t say welcome to The Heaven would you? It’s Afterlife. Not the Afterlife. Are you always this way?”
“What way?”
“Never mind.” The man shook his head and shuffled through a few papers on his messy desk.
I looked around the room and tried not to fidget. I didn’t know how I had gotten here. I didn’t know what had gotten me here either.
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