Eric Expired
Eric was dead. There was no two ways about it. He was no longer part of the living. He had left the proverbial mortal coil and passed over the rainbow bridge. Eric had expired. Much to his surprise though, death wasn’t the end of the line. Eric had never been particularly religious, and an afterlife was something he hadn’t even considered, and yet here he was. It wasn’t the most dignified of deaths and looking back it was probably quite funny. Being run over by a minibus full of clowns was something that happened to someone in a sitcom. But it happened to Eric. As the bus hit him, he felt himself flying through the air, waiting for the jolt as he landed, but it didn’t come. He seemed to just hang in the air, sort of floating like a bad smell, as his mum used to say. At first, he thought he was dreaming, maybe he had fallen asleep on the bus and now he was stuck in a weird nightmare. But when the ambulance turned up and carted away the remains of...