Welcome to the Nightmare Magazine Story podcast.

Enter freely and of your own free will.

I am your humble host, Terence Taylor, one very much at home with the children of the night.

Stay close as my muse, the medieval demon gobola guides us down into beautiful

darkness. In this episode, before our full-length story, we have a poem, When I Die,

written by Matthew Wolin and narrated by Stefan Rognicki. But first, a word from our sponsors. And now, Stefan Riddicki.

When I Die, by Matthew Wolin.

When I die, I like to think about the life I lived.

I like to be alive again every time I die.

I like to stay there till morning.

Every time I die, I make a fuss.

They always tell me not to make a fuss, but I do.

I can't help it.

I spent so long not dying before, you think I mean a metaphor.

You think I mean I mean sex, but I do not mean sex.

I mean dying.

I mean that other thing we do at night, and no, I don't mean sleep, or dreaming, or any other reasonable, small,

and eminently repeatable thing. I know so many who have died, who have taken death into themselves

and waited for it to grow, and when I die, I leave them all behind and go somewhere that no one else can go.

This piece came to me very quickly, but a lot went into it.

The humor and history of death is a metaphor for sex,

the quotidian almost death that happens when we go to sleep every night,

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