funeral conversations
"Is he dead?"
"Yup."
"Oh… he looks natural."
"That's a photo. We had him cremated."
"It's what he would have wanted."
"To die in a wheat thresher?"
"No, no. I mean to be cremated."
"Actually he wanted to be pressed into a diamond or shot into space, but I said bollocks to that. It's just not dignified."
Xen is published by Cave Drawing Ink in "Rise of the Outlanders!", is the author of "Beside the Still Water", and head writer in the forthcoming "Parallaxis". He was featured in the Summer 2010 issue of Broken City Magazine. His story "Always Darkest" published in Paragon III. The first novel of his Night's Dream Series, We Shadows is available from Double Dragon Publishing. He syndicated throughout the internet. He will write for you if you pay him.
