A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Morgue

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Morgue by G. Edwin Van Wright

Synopsis: When Tony Carbone — a New Jersey Italian-American with mob debt, a dream, and misplaced talents — receives a call he has been found dead, he does what any reasonable person would: he goes to the morgue, identifies the body as himself, and declares his problems solved...They are not solved.

The aftermath reveals freedom is rarely what we think, our obligations often define us, and that disappearing can carry an immeasurable cost.

G. Edwin VanWright is a poet, author, and playwright based in Houston, Texas. He writes in a style he calls muscular lyricism—a fusion of Hemingway’s grit, Joyce’s lyricism, and Camus’ philosophy of the absurd, where clarity and compression meet rhythm and existential depth. His work has appeared in Washington Square Review (2025), The McNeese Review, South Florida Poetry Journal, Oddball Magazine, Blood+Honey, Querencia Press, Phil Lit Journal, The Genre Society, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, and several other literary journals. He is a member of The Authors Guild, Dramatists Guild, and The Poetry Society of New York.