“You beat me home!” says Kelly, dropping her bag to wrap her arms around Dominic from the back and kiss his neck.
“Evan needed help with dinner,” says Dominic, and Evan in turn comes up behind her, burying his face in her hair. Kelly feels a damp patting on her arm and grins.
“You three just wanted extra snuggle time,” she accuses, and they barely even look ashamed. The baby on Evan’s hip emits a high-pitched and happy message. Kelly winks at her. She either has her father’s eyes or her daddy’s nose, but most days they can’t decide which.
Thursday, January 15, 2015
Jake dies and goes to Hell.
“This sucks!” says Jake.
“Right?!” says a demon.
“I thought I’d stop existing.”
“Nah,” grins the demon. “Death just takes your measure. No more quantum possibility, no more choices, no more branches. This is it. This is all you get.”
“Aha,” says Jake. “Well. In my life, I searched for certainty, so it’s poetic that—”
“Shut up!” says the demon, and throws him into a bunch of fire.
Jake also goes to Heaven when he dies, but that Jake can’t know about the one in Hell. That’s kind of what the point of Heaven is.
Wednesday, January 7, 2015