4Remembering
How exactly does a person end up drinking poisoned wine on their anniversary, when they don’t even like wine and hated celebrating their marriage to a walking, talking pig? Wine was expensive, and why drink wine when the family business was overflowing with beer since it was a brewery? Good beer, even great beer, if […]
3Teatime
“Hey, sleepyhead! You’re up.” Crindi set aside the pan of sizzling bacon and moved a kettle over a blue flame. She did something to a device mounted on a three-legged stand that was aimed right at me. Then she almost skipped through the cozy, brightly lit room, around the small dining set with its floral […]
2Paradise
I opened my eyes to find myself in paradise. My second awakening could not have been more different than my first. Instead of cold stainless steel, spotlight-pierced gloom, and the imminent threat of disembowelment, I woke up in a cozy, bright, cheerful box filled with heaven. My main memory of that first morning was a […]
1Awakening
I have my lying, cheating, tightfisted ex-husband to thank for the fact that I got the cheapest possible mummification package. But of course he cheaped out. I know exactly the way his mind worked. Why waste a few extra pieces of copper on the old model when you’ve already got another wife—the new kitchen girl—lined […]