Postcards from The Pug Bus

Postcards from The Pug Bus

Lifting a satirical leg on popular culture

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Follow-up Questions

3 weeks philmaggitti
Illustration of a woman calmly attending her own wake while the Grim Reaper consults a clipboard, surrounded by floating question marks and checklists, symbolizing follow-up questions that persist even after death.
Death promised no follow-up questions. Death lied.

The obituary listed my hobbies as surviving and keeping receipts. Friends praised my consistency. Enemies forgot my name. I attended my own wake out of curiosity. The snacks were better than I expected. I left early, satisfied, knowing death would finally stop asking follow-up questions I never planned to answer.

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