Friday Fictioneers: Life After Death
by Eena
This week Rochelle gives us a chase down the white rabbit’s tunnel for a key that opens to a Wonderland of impossibly short but maddeningly good stories. Take a peek or take up the challenge yourself: Friday Fictioneers.
Photo – Rich Voza
You deserve to go to heaven, but apparently Judgement isn’t that simple.
When you die there’s this creep, Destiny, who takes you down a hallway to choose your next life, waiting beyond one of the doors.
You feel like you’re on Let’s Make a Deal but all you have to trade is, well, the short life that cancer took from you.
Anyway, you tell him, you want to be a hero, the kind who makes people believe in miracles.
That’s when a trapdoor underneath swallows you up and next thing you know you’re lying back on the hospital bed, drowning in your mother’s tears, but otherwise feeling healthy as a horse.
*****
HER SANTOSHA 
Powerful tale, well written.
A lot in a little.
Thanks! It sure felt like a lot to write in so few words.
I like the interpretation of coming back to start life over. It’s a whole other dimension to your story. Nice one!
Thank you! I guess we’ll never know what really happens. Or we will find out and then the MIB erase our memories.
I liked the twist.
Thanks, Dawn!
Love this. Some our our greatest heroes are laying in a hospital bed, inspiring us with their battle. You really thought this one through. Well done!
Very true. They fight their own epic tales while we sit back and feel lucky. Thank you.
Such is life and our experience of it.
I’m not too sure I would want to!
I thought this was very clever. Good one.
I’m happy you thought so! Despite the multiple ending interpretation 🙂
Dear Eena,
My take on this is that he is born and his birth is what is making his mother believe in miracles. Great story. I hope that this is the way it is.
Aloha,
Doug
Ah Bach! I think Mr. M. is correct in his understanding of your story, Eena. 😉
Way to make me feel silly, Doug! I actually meant it as Rochelle understood it, a near-death experience. But your interpretation is better, as I chose the mom to be at the hospital (maybe I should have included a wife instead to make that clear). Thank you for this and giving me something to work on.
Dear Eena,
Quite a story of a near-death experience. Although the ending left me with questions. Was this a healing or death itself that left the MC feeling healthy as a horse? Well written.
Shalom,
Rochelle
Hi Rochelle, thank you so much. I believe he truly died for a few minutes there and some higher power sent him back to prove a point. The good get what they ask for, but not exactly what they wish for.