Escaping Heaven by Hicks Cliff

Author:Hicks, Cliff [Hicks, Cliff]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2013-01-16T16:00:00+00:00

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Bob found relaxation in the stacks of books. It was the best place to keep his head low, and there were rarely people coming through. It wasn’t that Heaven didn’t get a lot of readers, because some parts of the library were so heavily traversed that the shelves had been pushed further apart so there was more room for people to come and go. But this particular area of the stacks was nothing but rules, regulations, laws, ordinances and family histories. No one wanted to go read about things long since irrelevant or lost, not that people had been known to read rulebooks that much when they were alive either. Either way, it was the one section that almost never saw a soul pass through it. Even the librarians rarely came around, figuring there was no need to check up on an unused section.

So there was no one to bother Bob.

It had been nonstop wall-to-wall music for him for the last few days. Bob had been doing his research, and one of the things that amazed him the most about Heaven was that batteries ran forever in the Heavenly realms. The Cherubim was sure there was some sort of technical mumbo-jumbo about how a battery drew power from celestial presence, or that there was no need for energy in the afterlife, but really, Bob just liked the idea that nothing ever died in Heaven, not even batteries. They, like anything else in Heaven, weren’t allowed to do anything Heaven didn’t want. So he’d been enjoying his tunes, for as long as it would last. Bob didn’t expect it to be very long, so he wanted as much of the music in his head as he could get. Bob had learned not to get his hopes up. Less room for disappointment that way. So when an angel walked up behind him and tugged the earbuds from his ears, he wasn’t surprised in the least.

“Hey, could you be careful with those? You have any idea how hard it is to get intact headphones off a dead body?” Bob grimaced. “You break them, I’m gonna be scrounging for another few months, at least. And if God knows anything about me, He knows I hate a hard day’s work.”

“Relax, would you?” James said. “Breaking something in Heaven takes a lot more than a little tug. I should know, of all people.”

“What, you some kind of legbreaker?” Bob asked as James stepped around from behind Bob’s chair. He looked up at the angel with a wry smile. “Here to take me in? Rough me up?”

James chuckled as he moved to sit in the chair opposite Bob, holding his gaze steady with the Cherubim’s as he settled in on the other side of the table. “That doesn’t sound like the kind of thing the Bible describes angels doing. Nor any other Holy Book I’m familiar with, and believe me, I’ve read them all. I’ve had the time.”

Bob pushed pause on the iPod and then started to roll up the headphones as he looked James over.

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