Playing Hooky
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  • Parts 2
  • Time 7m
Ongoing, First published Mar 31, 2018
"But why would you, a grown man, ask a teenage girl to skip school to hang out with you? Do you know how that looks?"

"It wasn't like that. Nothing happened."

"That's not the point, Patterson. You contributed to the delinquency of a minor. You broke a law. It's the intention."

"That was not my bloody intention at all. The only mistake I made was asking the girl to skip school. But it's not this sordid thing that everyone is making it out to be."

"Then what was it then?"...
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Sex and Death in Skeleton City

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Geoff and Naomi are dead, and they're depressed, but when Geoff's cat Bernie dies as well, they embark on a wild journey to find it in the underworld. ***** When Geoff dies, alongside his girlfriend Naomi, they end up sharing an apartment in the Underworld as skeletons. But after a few years, Geoff starts suffering a mid-death crisis. What's the purpose of going through the motions as a skeleton if you can't really live? Then he gets word that his cat, Bernie, just died and he can collect him and bring him home! Geoff and Naomi hurry to get Bernie only to discover that, due to a clerical error, their cat has been lost. With the hunt for Bernie giving new purpose to Geoff's un-life, he and Naomi begin a quest to get back their cat. Battling skeleton pirates, climbing the sky ladder and facing off against the villain who took Bernie, Geoff is determined to find his purpose - or die a second time trying! [[2018 Wattys Winner - The Originals]] [[word count: 30,000-40,000 words]]