A Story In
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Next For Mel
“Choose.”
“What?” Mel was confused. It was 3 AM. Just moments before, he'd been pleasantly dreaming.
“You don't know what ‘choose’ means?”
“Huh?”
“CHOOSE, MEL!”
The irritated voice seemed to come from every direction, as though from out of a whirlwind.
“AND MAKE IT SOMETHING INANIMATE.”
This was it.
“TIME'S UP.”
Mel's life – if it could be called that – was over.
The angel had others to visit that Thursday and more important places to go.
“Couldn't I be a dog, or a goldfish?”
“REINCARNATION'S MAINLY INTO LIFELESS OBJECTS, MEL.”
People don't realize.
“Like...into an old basketball?”
“SO BE IT!”
From Guest Contributor David Sydney
Gravity
A panhandler with the woeful face of a Christian martyr in a medieval painting stops me outside the discount liquor store. He says he needs two more bucks to get a bottle. Marlene, he adds as if I know her, is resting with a beer and the dude that shot her whose nickname is Rabbit. Has anyone asked us how we see things? No! We’re all on the road. But now it’s really getting fun. I dig some change out of my pocket. There are only so many opportunities to take maximum advantage of gravity’s pull on people and objects.
From Guest Contributor Howie Good
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