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After Hours

Kyle Hemmings

    One day, I became dead. Oh, it wasn’t some flamboyant gesture like jumping from a skyscraper on a forever-clear afternoon. I just didn’t wake up. I just didn’t think that denying all those milligrams and holding one’s breath was such a big deal. As a dead person imagining, without all the blood rushing to one’s head, I would see a staggered line of people in the rain, holding umbrellas that never close properly. They must be thinking—What she could have been in pictures. I will be a toothpick piercing their tongues at a hastily-prepared meal. And there will always be one man with subverted longings who will say, “It’s not worth the price of the ticket.” Behind those movie sets, I wanted to be loved. I wanted to be destroyed. I evaporated during sex orgies. Truth be told, I was a howling success. But I will make a comeback. I can promise this. I will make a comeback the way those old celluloid ghosts always did. I will be the ghost who says You can no longer touch me.

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