Catch Your Death
- A short story idea that has been sitting in skeleton and layout form in my drafts for years *
Catch Your Death
"You'll catch your death if you go out dressed like that"
And so he did, it sits on his mantlepiece, a swirling darkness like liquid smoke, bottled in an old jam jar
Oh it hadn't been quite as easy as just leaving home without a jacket, it was months before he could even make out his reaper from the shadows on his path and only once he was looking for it.
The weight of his life had become too much to bare, so he seeked his death. that constant walking companion.
lures his reaper. and chats with it realizes does not want to die. as had not really lived yet. nothing to take
negotiates some time before the reaper will take him
meets his reaper again discuss how he had used that time. (hobbies) reaper: so you have lived enough now? man negotiates more time
meets reaper again discuss how he had used that time. (travelling) reaper: so you have lived enough now? man negotiates more time
meets reaper again discuss how he had used that time. (other people) reaper: so you have lived enough now? reaper comes for him man catches the reaper and traps him in an old jam jar
end with man, years later. contemplating opening the jar