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My nextmy eyes to pure darkness When I was a kid I read a short story about a preacher ent to Hell, and when he got there he discovered the dead didn&039;t have eyelids, so they couldn&039;t close their eyes to block out the horror Right away I kneasn&039;t in Hell, since I couldn&039;t see a thing

I wriggled experiuing co hard, but the sides of e were padded If this was a hospital rooest one ever And where was everybody? I wriggled soed into soave hen I shoved Then I was sitting up, blinking in the glooe, industrial kitchen

Then I realized I was sitting in a coffin Which had been placed on a large, stainless steel table Which meant this wasn&039;t a kitchen, this was-

I nearly broke so out As it was, I moved too quickly and the coffin and I tumbled off the table and onto the floor I felt the shock in my knees as I hit and didn&039;t care; in a flash I was on h the doors and found loomier in here; there were no s that I could see, just rows and rows of coat racks At the far end of the entry was a tall, wild-eyed blonde dressed in an absurd pink suit She e blusher and toofor her face, too She was so shockingly pale, just about anyfor her

She wobbled toward et the second at half price-and I saw her hair was actually quite nice: shoulder-length, with a cute flip at the ends and interesting streaky highlights

Interesting Shade 23 Lush Golden Blonde highlights

The woman in the awful suit was me The woman in the cheap shoes was me!

I staggered closer to the mirror, wide-eyed Yes, it was really me, and yes, I looked this awful Well, ouldn&039;t I? I was dead, wasn&039;t I? That silly ass in the Pontiac Aztek had killed me, hadn&039;t he?

I was dead but too du around inside the funeral home in a cheap suit and fake leather shoes The funeralat the clock And my jerkweed of a stepmother must have picked out this outfit for me And

I slipped one of the shoes off, looked at the inside Property of Antonia O&039;Neil Taylor

The bitchher cast-off shoes! This see driven into a tree whileto look after the little monster? Jessica, probably, or maybe my motheryes, probably my mother