A woman named Laura lies dying. It is Saturday, and she tells Amanda she will probably die on the following Tuesday, according to the doctor. Laura believes, however, that she will be reincarnated when she dies, but will come back as a lower organism, because she hasn’t been a good person in this life.
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The English writer Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916), who is better known under his pen name Saki, was a master of the short comic story and, in some ways, a missing link between Oscar Wilde and P. G. Wodehouse. What’s more, Saki was that rare writer who could write humorously, for an adult audience, about both children and animals.