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The Great Chasm

I wasn’t sure where we were or how it was that we got there, but wherever we were, it was not a place where you would choose to go, if you’d have had the choice.  The town was large, and you could tell also well inhabited, because from the corner of your eye you could see shadows dash quickly across the windows and dark transparent figures that moved so swiftly between the buildings and through the streets that you could blink, then look again, and they would be gone. It made me question whether they had even been there, but a burnt surfer-like stench that lingered in the air hinted to the fact that it wasn’t just our imaginations.  Yet, at the same time, it was eerily quiet, it felt as if that moment of suspense when you hold your breath, so as to not miss even the slightest sound, in the vast ocean of silence that whispers clues of what might suddenly happen next. Just like that very still, tense moment that happens just before the hunting lioness, lying in hiding between the dense g

Confessions of a Mother, continued: The Other Side of The Story

Joseph: Clearance, I have a special case for you down on earth. Clearance: Will I win my wings second class this time    if I get her thru this. Joseph: Yes, Clearance.    She needs the light and clarity you can give her. View her life at the moment and how the evil one is attempting to manipulate her. Here he mentions all the things Tarbile did that day, which Tarbile described in detail in his letter to Cinderrott and later to Ashbowel (the one assigned to The Uncle). Clearance: My, my... the devil the enemy assign to her is playing in her imagination that she is a terrible mom when in reality she a loving mom with a husband and children that love her and know they know they are loved by her. She has the minor phone imperfections of her uncle and they are already working on the overcoming it. The evil one assign to her is trying to get her obsessed with this minor imperfection. Joseph: Yes, Clearance. Doesn't this case remind you of another case.

Anita and Tío Fred’s Play Off of The Great Divorce

Anita and I sat at the back of the bus, well away from the others and said quietly a Our Father and Hail Mary. Almost immediately a bright eyed smiling woman sat next to us. As she did we moved off. I heard you saying the Hail Mary so I thought you wouldn't mind me joining. All the other people in this bus are idiots. "Why do you say that?" Anita asked. The her bright eyes and warm, friendly face turned to whimpering and a few tears. Her face remained frozen that way for a moment, while you could tell that she was replaying something in her mind. Then a suddenly, she smirked and perked up, and replied, "Many of us were friends at one time or another." It's very sad, really, after all I did for them! Not even a single thank you!" "I hope someday they will realized all I did for them. They only think of themselves. " A man with a long gray beard appeared to overheard our conversation and hesitatingly turned around to fac

Confessions of a mother: inspired by Screwtape Letters

My Dear Tarbile, Im pleased to report that today was another dreadful day for my patient and a successful in bringing this wrecked patient of mine one step closer to an eternity in our fathers house. She remained tirelessly on her phone, looking over and over again at the same thing, and in the end with nothing to show for it. Hours she spent gazing at her device, all the while excusing, and reasoning with herself that this was something important, that she didn't feel well enough to properly care for the children today, and that eventually her husband would be home to give the children the attention they deserved. Whenever I saw her day getting more difficult, I encouraged her to replay several thoughts in her mind, "you cant do this, so just give up now", "you don't deserve them, they deserve better". It's so easy to make her believe this and remain oblivious to the flaws in her reasoning. I let her just sulk and numb herself with that incredibly usef

Stranded on the Winding Dirt Road

Oh Dear Ole Sherrif Fred,  You just wouldn't believe the day I had today.  I sure could have used your rescuin'.I know if you would've been in town, you would have gotten me out of that pickle faster than a prairie fire with a tail wind. It started like this, I was out with all the youngin's, ridin' along in our horse drawn carriage.  The road to lil' LiliAnne and Clare's teacher was blocked so we had to take the long, winding road. I'd been a while since I last had fed my horse, you know I'm so busy an' all with the lil' ones. I figured he could make it that last mile, and then I'd get around to  feeding him. Well, I guess I went and pushed that horse a lil' too hard this time because that horse stopped dead in its tracks right as I was making my turn back onto the main road.  You know how fast those wild cowboys ride down that road too. So here I am, with all the kids, and our carriage is blockin' half the road. Those cowb