This challenge is produced by GirlieOnTheEdge with the following simple rules:
Write 6 Sentences. No more. No less.
Use the current week’s prompt word – SPACE
An Apology:
I have been very remiss in my (non-)replies to your kind comments over the past 2 weeks here.
This is because on my return to Scotland at the end of July I promptly contracted Covid which has left me short of energy and concentration.
I will try to do better.
Click here to hear the author read his words:
Afterlife
So this is heaven.
A nice lady shows us onto a bus and we get the grand tour, where we see parks and gardens, flowers and trees, rivers and streams, and, in the distance, snow-peaked mountains, all in oodles of space and very, very lovely, and basically pretty much as I expected when I volunteered.
You see, I am, or rather I was, a suicide bomber, and I joined the fight for my beliefs, as I was taught.
Paradise looks to be pretty much as promised even if I haven’t seen any virgins yet, although that is maybe a bit unfair, I can’t really judge the ladies here, can I?
When, at the end of the tour, we get separated and allocated different queues for our eventual destinations, it turns out that I am the only one in this queue, which has a signpost saying ‘Underworld’.
It seems that God is, after all, a Catholic, and suicide is a mortal sin.
Sound Bite Fiction 
Ha! Great post. Loved the ending!
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Cute story, love what you did with the prompt 🙂
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Happy you enjoyed!
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Lol excellent punch line. (I’m still working on the humorous Sixes… there is an art to not telegraphing the punchline, a skill I have not mastered… and given the whole ‘Six-and-only-Six sentence rule, it’s no mean feat! well done)
Hey, sorry to hear about the covid. But, look at the bright side, you now have a medical condition to account for the lack of taste.
bar rum bump!! (no, he dihin’t!)
;p
(being a clark, I’ve enjoyed a certain advantage during the pandemic, having been born socially-distant)
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I spent significant time writing 100-word stories on Friday Fictioneers, an interesting discipline where brevity is the soul of pretty much everything.
I also write children’s books, poetry and songs, so I’ve developed a certain flexibility of approach over the years.
I’m amazed and utterly impressed that you (very nearly) made a joke here.
I hope you didn’t get a nose-bleed so far out of your comfort zone.
Cheers
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Dude! Been out of (my) comfort zone in the course of writing the Doctrine blog* over the years so many times, if I wasn’t already chronically anemic…lol
In my defense, I can’t, for the life of me, tell a fricken ‘knock-knock’ joke to an audience of one.
Compliments on the new look, the ‘kinder, gentler ceayr’ with the attentive follow-up on the comments.
Remember: rocking chairs are not toys and shawls are not just for infants. Maybe, if you’re feeling especially rambunctious, you might commission the local tailor to do up a nice cardigan with an embroidered ‘I am blogger! Hear me snore!’
*comfort zone leaving motto: “If I get everyone mad at me for writing this, I’ll just have to get myself another set of everyone”
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oh dear
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Indeed, sir!
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Always with the twist at the end, ye wiley one! You crack me up, royally.
And here’s to being on the mend, Sir!
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I confess, Liz, that I enjoy giving my reader a wee surprise!
And thanks.
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Let us know what it’s like down there so we can decide if sinning is worth it or not!
Hopefully, you are rid of covid now.
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Check out my conversation with Doug, below.
Gary Larson depicted Hell perfectly.
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I was under the impression that the trip to Scotland was to replenish your soul. Sorry to read the bad news about Covid. 😦
But the good news is you now know for sure you don’t have a soul. None of us do. 🙂
I will find something to replenish, restore, refresh, renew your spirit, fire up, light up your energy. 😉
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Thank you for your kind words, dear Lady.
I use ‘soul’ to describe whatever it is inside us that makes us who we are, with no religious connotation.
I appreciate, as always, your delightful song, which raised me once again to a higher plane!
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Hope you are getting better. Your writing still carries the same power, and that is why writers can’t stop writing.
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Thanks, Reena, you’re right, writing is a compulsion, isn’t it!
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Yes. Letting it out gives tremendous relief.
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I have been SO Worried about you!! Every other day I checked the Reader…because last I knew you were headed to Scotland for a cool breeze…and pretty soon my thoughts went negative. Oh my–has your “C” case been a mild one, or pretty tough?? Please know you’re in my heart and prayers everyday (for a full recovery). Leslie
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No need to fret, Leslie, it takes more than a worldwide plague to dampen my spirits.
I think it would have cleared in 2 or 3 days if I’d just rested, but I had a zillion things to do and exhausted myself several times, causing it to drag on.
Thanks for caring.
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Oh, bless your heart…I’m somewhat relieved. And I understand exactly, about needing to rest–but having a zillion things to do. Take care–I’ll keep you in my prayers.
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Well done! And please never apologize for not responding to a comment from me, i’m so busy from work it’s all i can do to read and leave a comment anyway.
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Thanks, Mimi, the pressure’s off!
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Six inspired by dreams inspired by covid? Naah…you haven’t missed a beat, ceayr!
I hope you’re well on the mend and back to more normal energy levels.
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Thanks, Denise, glad you enjoyed.
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Reminds of the Far Side cartoon of a man in Hell facing two doors marked ‘Damned If You Do’ and ‘Damned If You Don’t’, with the Devil poking him in the back with a pitchfork saying ‘C’mon, c’mon, pick one or the other!’
Hope you’re soon not lookin’ a bit peely-wally, Big Yin.
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Some of Larson’s Hell cartoons were tear-inducingly side-hurtingly brilliant.
‘They think of everything, even the coffee’s cold’
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Nice writing (with your usual flow)
And hope you are 100% spon
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Very kind, thank you
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☀️
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Nicely set up as always and a gentle, light-hearted comment on the confusion of religions in the world. The matter-of-fact, mischievous tone gives it a special quality that made me smile.
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Y’know me, Jenne, I don’t know the difference between an Episcopalian and a barrel on monkeys.
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Nice twist at the end. I was wondering if you were going to let him have a few virgins.
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Hahahahahahahahaha!
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🤣
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Frank! I’m shocked!
Bwahahahahahaha!
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He’s a wild man deep down, it seems!
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Ha! I thought of Paul Simon’s The Afterlife with the queues and all.
How interesting to know that God is Catholic. I’ll be damned.
Feel better.
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I wouldn’t count on damnation just yet, D, cos I’m not really an expert.
I’m not sure if She’s even a Christian.
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Ha!
And phew!
I’ll cancel my conversion.
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