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"I have experienced some tastes of my afterlife as a crustacean. In it, I am one of many, on a beach with purple sand abutting a sea that could be water but might be some other liquid entirely, beneath stars that seem larger and brighter than any I see in the night sky now."

SlipstreamMortalityPhilosophical

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IntrospectiveConsciousnessSpeculative FictionElegiacMemoryContemporaryLiterary SFContemplativeFirst PersonLiteraryGrief And LossIdentityVoice DrivenBittersweetScience Fiction

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deathsuicide

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