TOM
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  • Reads 89
  • Votes 2
  • Parts 8
  • Time 18m
Ongoing, First published Aug 10, 2015
When I was six years old, my friends and I found a bird that had been pushed out of it's own nest. We carefully picked it back up and placed it back in its best again. 
An hour later we came back only to see the bird on the floor again, it's wing broken. My mother came to our aid carrying a box in which we put the bird in with cotton balls. Thus, he was named Cotton.
We fed and nourished the bird for two days until it died. We were heartbroken. 
Some may call this the circle of life, I call it pure death. The baby bird never even got to spread his wings and soar, just like Tom.
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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]]