...The next time I opened my eyes, I was in the morgue. This, all by i…

Jim Butcher
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...The next time I opened my eyes, I was in the morgue. This, all by itself, is enough to really ruin your day. I was lying on the examining table, and Butters, complete with his surgical gown and his tray of autopsy instruments, stood over me. 'I'm not dead!' I sputtered. 'I'm not dead!' - Harry Dresden, Death Masks, Jim Butcher ✨ Jim Butcher (2003). Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files, p.359, Penguin Group
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