THIS IS HOW YOU DIE – Preview Story 8 - SCREAMING, CRYING, ALONE, AND AFRAID

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The machine had been invenTed a few years ago:

a machine that could tell, rom just a sample o your blood, how you were

going to die. It didnt give you the date and it didnt give you specifcs. It just

spat out a sliver o paper upon which were printed, in careul block letters,

the words DROWNED or CANCER or OLD AGE or CHOKED ON A HAND-

FUL OF POPCORN. It let people know how they were going to die.

And it was rustratingly vague in its predictions: dark, and seemingly

delighting in the ambiguities o language. OLD AGE, it turned out, could

mean either dying o natural causes or being shot by a bedridden man in abotched home invasion. The machine captured that old-world sense o irony

in death: you can know how its going to happen, but youll still be surprised

when it does.

We tested it beore announcing it to the world, but testing took

timetoo much, since we had to wait or people to die. Ater our years had

gone by and three people had died as the machine predicted, we shipped it

out the door. There were now machines in every doctors ofce and in boothsat the mall. You could pay someone or you could probably get it done or ree,

but the result was the same no matter what machine you went to. They were,

at least, consistent.


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HE WILL LAUGH WHILE YOU CRY.

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FROM NECROLINGUISTICS by MARCUS CHANTUNYA

One o the reasons people fnd it hard to accept Death Machine orecasts

as purely scientifc phenomena is the language o the predictions. You

would expect a machine to produce purely empirical data, as one would

fnd in an almanac. GPS coordinates or simple descriptive words like

heart attack, internal bleeding. However, so many predictions are

poetic. WHILE TRYING TO SAVE ANOTHER instead o fre.HE WILL LAUGH WHILE YOU CRY instead o beaten and

tortured to death. Some predictions have a sense o humor. In some

cases the word choice indicates sadness or anger. The language o the

predictions seems to reveal personality. Whose personality? Gods?

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FROM NECROLINGUISTICS by MARCUS CHANTUNYANostradamuss predictions o the uture were all entrenched within

our-line poems. Academia maintains that he must have obscured

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his meaning to avoid charges o heresy. Skeptics take the view that

his predictions were vague so that they could be bent to ft whatever

happened. But imagine these hypotheses were wrong. Maybe

Nostradamus had no choice but to write his predictions in crypticquatrains because that is how they came to him. Consider the cryptic

language o Death Machine orecasts. Maybe it is something inherent in

the nature o prediction. A man who looks in the ace o God is blinded.

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The question remains, Why? Why has God chosen to speak to us

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through the Death Machines? Why predictions o death? Why not tell us

o the moment we will all in love, the moment o conception when a new

lie orms? My analysis o the language that God uses is revelatory. The

subtext o his predictions is clear. He longs or our return to him. DeathMachine predictions are Gods hopes. The Death Machine gives voice to

Gods own prayers, and the only way that [Manuscript unfnished]

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THIS IS HOW

YOU DIEStories of the Inscrutable, Infallible,

Inescapable Machine of Death

in sTores everywhere JULy 16

EDITED BY

RYAN NORTH,

MATTHEW BENNARDO,

AND DAVID MALKI !

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