The Ironic Fantastic #3

and waited. I thought I had more time than I actually did, because before too long the door opened and a grave walked into the room.

“You’re early,” I told the grave.

The grave shrugged and quoted the Book of Matthew, Chapter 24, verse 36: “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

Although really, given your inability to adequately cope with work-related stress and anxiety, and the less-than-subtle foreshadowing you passed on your way to work this morning, my early arrival shouldn’t come as a complete surprise.

“You did see me coming, didn’t you?”