Archive for August, 2006

Angel of Death 5

Men have their whole lives to make sure that they go into the light when they die. This man had 70 years. But he, like so many other people, ignored death his whole life. It figures that he would choose after he’s dead to try to fight his way out of going into the darkness.

She was waiting for the man behind a dumpster. She hated dragging people into eternity like this, but he wouldn’t go peacefully like the rest of them. He was determined to make her work. In a few minutes he would be coming around the corner into the alley, that’s when she would jump him.

He had lived a relatively normal life. He went to church every Sunday and most people would have been surprised to find that he had any sin worthy of sending him to hell, but most people didn’t know about the children he molested. She knew, and she knew that he had to pay for what he had done. He had other plans. As soon as he realized where she was going to lead him, he started running. He chose to make his stand against the darkness after the choice was no longer his to make.

She knew nobody had ever escaped her grip, and soon he would know too. In just a few seconds, she would grab him by the collar drag him into the darkness.

Five Minutes

How long is five minutes? A scientist would say that five minutes is 2,757,789,531,000 periods of radiation of a cesium 133 atom. But what is five minutes to the person experiencing it? A wise man once told me that five minutes with your hands on a beautiful woman was only a few seconds, but five minutes with your hand on a hot oven was hours.

I am experiencing the hours, while my love is experience the seconds. It has been an eternity since she stepped into the time vortex. Neither of us knew if it would work, but I couldn’t stop her from trying it. For her, the journey to the very near future would be instantaneous. Would be, that is, if the portal worked and didn’t kill her.

I still have 30 seconds left until I know if my love is alive. It might as well be 30 years.

Losing Permits

I was scheduled to take my Driver’s License test again today at 9:45 AM. I was leaving the house in the van, which is much easier to maneuver than the Grand Prix, and remembered that my permit was in the Grand Prix. My step dad took the Grand Prix to work. I had to reschedule the exam, again. The next opening wasn’t until next Friday at 3:30 PM. I’m so angry. It has taken me way longer than I expected to get my license. All I want right now is to be able to drive, and to have a job. I can’t have a job without being able to drive, and I can’t drive without a license. So I’m stuck at home trying to find something to do with my time until I can finally have some freedom.

Angel of Death 4

She could have played with the red ball all day. It was her favorite toy. She would run around the front lawn kicking the ball and running after it. Sometimes she would throw the ball up the in the air and try to catch it as it came back down. Today, she happened to kick the ball into the road. She ran after it as she always did. She didn’t see the truck coming.

The next thing that she did see, however, was the beautiful woman. Her white face shone in the bright sunlight of the day. She raised a welcoming hand to the girl, but the girl was in a jovial mood. Thinking that she would make a game of chase with this new woman, she ran in the other direction but was stopped short by the sight of her body laying dead on the road while her mother was sobbing over her.

The mother looked up from the body and saw the girl standing next to her as a ghost. The mother reached out her hand to the girl in disbelief. The girl, not yet realizing that she was dead, tried to touch her mother’s hand, but their hands went through each other. It was only then that the girl realized that the body was her own.

The girl fell to her knees and began to cry, but then she felt a hand on her sholder. She looked up and saw the beautiful woman smiling at her. The woman leaned down and wispered to the girl in a soft, sweet voice, “It will be alright, but you have to come with me now.” She took the girl’s hand and helped her to her feet. She then slowly lead the girl into the light.