Mouth of Madness by Hunter Blain

Author:Hunter Blain [Blain, Hunter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Argento Publishing
Published: 2020-04-11T23:00:00+00:00

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I floated in an expanse of nothingness, not knowing if I had fully died or had simply held my breath and plunged under the waves of eternity with the intent of breaking the surface again. You would think I would have it all figured out by now as this wasn’t my first foray into the after-verse, but you’d be wrong.

A light appeared before me, and I felt a familiar tug. I didn’t let my hopes get up for two reasons, the first being that if I was dead, I wasn’t safe and neither were the other souls above or below.

An armored hand was placed on my chest, gentler than before.

“And here’s reason number two,” I sighed as the guardian blocked the light to Heaven, effectively cutting off the pull of forever. “Hell, then?” I asked, craning my neck to look behind me. There was no light comprised of hellfire playing tug-of-war with yours truly. “Huh?” I asked, attempting to turn more of my upper body to look all around behind me.

“There is no Hell for you, John,” the guardian said.

Jerking my head around to regard him, I did a double take and asked in a terrible French accent, “Pardon muah?” while putting a hand up to my ear as if trying to hear better.

“You have sacrificed yourself to save the children of God. In so doing, John Cook, you have gained access to the Kingdom of Heaven. Peace be with you,” the guardian said as he faded and vanished before my eyes, letting the light of Heaven wrap around me and pull my soul.

“Wait!” I cried out, attempting to fight the pull for fear of what it would lead to. “I can’t die! Not yet!”

I blinked and stood before a massive gold fence that seemed to reach into the sky forever. It was awesome in every literal sense of the word. My mouth hung open as I looked up, not seeing the top. Looking along its length left and right revealed no further insight on the fence’s end. I heard the unmistakable sound of heavy doors opening and turned my gaze to see that in the middle were two gates that were opening slightly. A single figure walked out and toward me. I squinted to see the silouette in the magnificence of the golden light, and recognized the man.

“Figured the pearly gates would be more…pearly,” I jested awkwardly as the Archangel Gabriel came out to greet me. I extended my hand, feeling both peace and worry sloshing over one another in my chest like a yin-yang tumbling down a hill. I glanced behind my friend and felt the warm light of Heaven caress my skin, creating a sensation of joy that made me want to smile without a reason as to why. Only my stubborn mind kept me from relenting and accepting the gift of eternal bliss.

“It’s good to see you, John. I’m proud you’ve made it this far,” Gabriel said, gesturing around. “I dare say you are the first supernatural entity that has redeemed himself enough to make it to Heaven.

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