" Images appeared under my eye sockets . Like a cinema screen . Sploshing of lights , forms , hot colors , metamorphosis of surfaces , kaleidoscopes of cells and fibres. It was the party , the lights , the evening , the warm feeling of the bodies brushing , arms holding , sweats mingling , alcohol , fucking booze errupting from cascades. "
Tate died . She left her mother behind , met God. But does God really exist ? What if after-life was just a war-field. What if you had to fight to have another chance. What about the ones who didn't wish to live anymore ? Would they be forgotten.
It's grief , it's heaven , it's hell , all at once. It's going mad , finding saneness again . It's crying , then drying your tears . It's terrifying , it's beautiful , the art , the death.
The death.
Wishing this would turn into a movie. Lol never gonna happen.
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.
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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]]
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