The LanternEveryone gets one last drink. Except the bartender.Nobody comes to the Lantern on purpose.It is a bar with no clock, no windows, and a door at the back that opens only when you are ready. The newly dead wander in out of the cold, take a stool, and are poured the drink they need: a late wife's chicory coffee, a blue gas-station slush, the sour vinegar of a Roman legion. They talk. And when they have set down whatever they were carrying, they go.COMING January 26th 2027
