Travelling Bodies--Part I

(Co-written by Feier & Kait)

Feier Cheng and Kait Barnes perished after ingesting tacos laced with arsenic. The two friends had decided in their youth to donate their bodies to the Bodies Exhibit. They chose to do this so they could travel around the world together for free. This is part of their story.

Cue Willie Nelson's "On the road again"

Feier and Kait are sitting at the back of the trailer imagining where they are going to travel on their first journey as corpses.

Feier: This is our life after death

Kait: And what a life it is

Feier: Thousands of strangers are looking at our silicon preserved bodies.

Kait: Where do you think we are going first?

Feier: A box.

Kait: No, what museum is our first destination?

Feier: I suppose the Cincy Union Terminal Museum, I mean we died around here...

Kait: I mean they've already preserved our bodies. I don't think it matters where we died.

Feier: Well, maybe for the first trial run they wanted to use a shorter distance so there is less damage to our corpses.

Kait: Yeah, I think they also wanted us to be comfortable with our surroundings.

Feier: But, we're dead.

Kait: Corpses can get homesick too.

Feier: Well, I guess we're home and happy.

So, they are in a trailer, driving along the highway.

Kait: I'd like to go to California. I never got a chance to go there when I was alive.

Feier: Well, if I could go anywhere in the United States I'd want to go to um...I guess California and Wyoming.

Kait: Why do you want to go to Wyoming? No one lives there. NObody there wants to look at dead bodies.

Feier: Well, dad thought about moving us there once and I told him I didn't wnat to go because Wyoming has nothing there...but I mean if I went there, then I guess there'd be something to go see.

Truck goes over a speed bump and Kait's skull nearly falls off.

Kait: Oh, shit! I guess they didn't preserve my head well enough!

Feier: There's nothing in it anyway.

Kait: Hey, I take offense to that!

Feier: wanna fight? it's nothing but silicon anyway, you can't move. You have no calcium flow to contract muscles.

Kait: Whaaatt???

Feier: Class. Nevermind....I'm hungry....

Kait: Wait, what do corpses eat?

Feier: Nothing. I mean, in Twilight the vampires didn't eat at school and were...sort of vegetarians...we're just...the vegetarians of the vegetarians.

Kait: You've been reading too many teen romance novels.

Feier: Only because you exposed me to them.

Kait: Whoa, look at my lungs! Look at how black they are!

Feier: Mine are pink! I told you not to smoke so much...

Kait: Whatever, it was tacos that caused my death, not cigs.

Feier: Psh.

Kait: Whoa, look at your brain!

Feier: I can see yours too...

Kait: I keep on forgetting we can see our internal organs now.

Feier: Gross. It's like being already dissected.

Kait: Ok. Enough talk about internal organs, it's grossing me out.

Trailer pulls to a jolting stop and they arrive at their first destination.

(To be continued...)