Pretending the Bed Is A Raft is a Canadian 1997 short story anthology by Nanci Kincaid. The anthology is best-known for being the basis for the 2003 Canadian romantic drama film My Life Without Me.
This book contains examples of the following tropes:
- Last Day to Live: The main plot of the anthology's titular story is a woman with terminal cancer who only has a short time left to live.
- Sympathetic Adulterer: Most of the stories in the anthology use this trope in one form or another, particularly the titular story, which features a dying woman having an affair.
