{"text":"I was facing him before the last word was out, but I should have been dead by then. In a way I did die, right there, all that time ago, and this is a ghost who has been telling you stories and drinking your wine. You don't understand. Never mind.","author":"Peter S. Beagle","tags":["death","dying","ghosts","lal","lal-after-dark","lal-alone","lalkhamsin-khamsolal","never-mind","sailor-lal","stories","swordcane-lal","telling-stories","wine"],"id":283971,"author_id":"Peter+S.+Beagle"}