I Can't Hang

Kyle Strickland is dead.

He gets hit by a truck on his merry way home from school on a pleasant rainy day, and as he drifts out of his own life, he shuffles into an afterlife that he never even believed in. When he crosses paths with another bona-fide New York angel named Brady, things start to go to Hell even though Kyle’s technically bound for Heaven.

“Into each life, some rain must fall.”

You know…even if it’s the afterlife.

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Playlist!

Chapter titles are lyrics to "Cemetery" by Say Anything.

There's a Cemetery Deep Below the Sea
There the Space is Reserved for Fools Like Me
Tried to Kill Myself at Least a Dozen Times
But Nothing Seemed to Turn Out Right
Now I'd Rather Wait a Half a Century
Soiling the Bed All Belligerent and Wrinkly
Even When I Go Blind and Lose My Mind
Nothing Seems to Turn Out Right
Something's Gotta Turn Out Right
If You Want, Then When We Die
We'll Ascend to Some Place Way Up High
The Gate Will Show You Through
If They Ask Me
Fancy shiny new chapter! (...It's kind of a filler.)
I'm With You
You're in my Body, That's Where I Think About You
There's No One Who Imagines Like You
So Convinced There's Somewhere That We Go To
Not a First-Class Trip to the Abyss
Tell Me, Do You Still Feel This?
As I Drown in Lakes of Fire
I Will Call Your Name as I Expire
It's the Last Thing that I'll Do
I Will Tell Them I'm With You
Falling Asleep, Asleep at the Wheel
As I Approach That Cliff, I'm Starting to Feel
If You Can Wake Me Up, With Only a Touch
If I Can Die With You, Life Would Be Enough
And I'll Face the One Who Made My Disgusting Heart From a Lump of Clay
Should He Ask What Got Me Through...
Epilogue: If He Asks Me, It Was You.
Please read the author's note! :)