John often writes a short story for the holidays. This one is based on an opening that he wrote at a writing seminar once. I thought it was a great opening!

It was not the being dead that I minded, it was the hours.

No one ever calls me up during the day, and most people decide to wait until after midnight, for some reason.  I am a morning person, or was, so meetings in the still, dark hours lost between midnight and the dawn make me crabby.

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