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

Not quite thirty-two, four flashbacks was all I got. It still seemed like there should have been more. A whole life in four acts? Even a twenty-three-minute sitcom had five these days.


“Nothing left to do but hope I lived a decent enough life to end up in the good place,” I said to whatever supreme being I was about to meet. “The Good Place…that was a great show.”


I wondered if Heaven had on-demand TV as I tried to get a handle on the time I had left.


“Seven seconds, I’d say. Six, five, four, thr—”


In television and movie production terms, fade to black.  2


Hollywood has provided many narratives concerning death, everything from The Sixth Sense, to Ghost, to Charlie St. Cloud, to Pushing Daisies, to Days of Our Lives. No one ever stays dead on Days of Our Lives. Sometimes, they come back to life with a different actor’s face, but they never stay dead. Being gay, I’d likely be written off the show or relegated to the back burner, but I wouldn’t stay dead.


Chapter 5