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The Afterlife Story
There was a place – called the Afterlife by some, Underworld, Netherworld, Realm of the Dead by others – and Dinah imagined that was where she had gone. The Afterlife a cold and barren Other World that could not be reached by the living. That is how she felt – cold and barren. She must be dead. Fitting that the Kaw brought her here considering all the crossing over water to the place of the dead myths there were Before.
Gradually she grew warmer and the air snapped and crackled near her. She opened her eyes. The first thing she saw were jagged glass teeth that lined the windows where panes once rested. Beneath the window a rusted steam heater sat. Oddly she did not think there should be windows or steam heaters in the Afterlife.
Dinah turned

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