Hollywood soundstage tutor Otto Brennington has always felt invisible. Then he meets super hunk Shawn Slate. Hot sex on their first date leads to a marriage proposal. With their whole lives ahead of them, they wed in Hawaii, then celebrate with a skydive, where death does them part.<br><br>Otto is in for the shock of his afterlife upon discovering where he’ll now spend eternity. Once there, a series of sweet yet unexplainable visions lead him to believe the life just lost wasn’t his first. Was it also possibly not his last?<br><br>With the aid of several paranormal beings, Otto learns the ins and outs of his new existence, one he plans on making temporary. Will he make it back to the land of the living and the man of his dreams? Is that man Shawn? Or will Otto decide his newest acquaintances make the place he’s in not so bad after all?

Monsters

“Mystic…Dat’s not berwy nice.” He didn’t snap at me when I kissed his twitchy little rat nose. “No, it’s not. No, it’s not, my wittle pumpkin.” I’d never seen Mystic snap at anyone before, except when he did it to Rex just forty seconds prior. “Too much excitement, I guess, huh, sweet ums? He’ll get used to you,” I told Shawn.


Maybe Mystic thought Shawn and I were rushing things. Mom and Tabor did; Rex, on the other hand, when I expressed some doubts to him, put it thusly: “You’re not getting any younger, bro. What if this is your last shot?”


I had time for one more brief flashback. Present on many a soundstage when a script came in a minute short, I should have remembered sixty seconds is a lot longer than it sounds. For whatever was left of mine, I decided to go back to my last kiss.


Chapter 4