Our indie short is running behind this week, but I don't want to short-change all the faithful "WSF Bloggies" out there (yes, that's a real thing). So, here you go. This short is apparently drawn from a book by the same name and it's good for a couple chuckles. Here is the book's synopsis if you want some more details:
The machines started popping up around the world. The offer was tempting: with a simple blood test, anyone could know how they would die. But the machines didn't give dates or specific circumstances-just a single word or phrase. DROWNED, CANCER, OLD AGE, CHOKED ON A HANDFUL OF POPCORN. And though the predictions were always accurate, they were also often frustratingly vague. OLD AGE, it turned out, could mean either dying of natural causes, or being shot by an elderly, bedridden man in a botched home invasion. The machines held onto that old-world sense of irony in death: you can know how it's going to happen, but you'll still be surprised when it does.