Beginnings 099 – The Plural of Die

It’s ‘dice’, not ‘dies’, but this godforsaken planet is as short on grammar as it is on everything else.
Come back to life more than once, and they give you a nickname. Names are something we have plenty of. Names, myths, rumours, theories, we’ve got them. I’d trade any two of those for a thimble of hope, if there were such a thing.
Anyway, after I came back the second time, they started calling me Dies. Naomi Dies. Has a hopeful ring to it, doesn’t it?
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“The Plural of Die”

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