12 1/2 Angels

PUBLISHED FALL 2023

penance,

purgatory,

greed,

Pearly gates and angels,

judgement,

earning way into heaven,

Religion and atonement

AUTHOR’S NOTE: Why I wrote ’12 1/2 Angels’: (details coming soon)

Greed is at odds with godliness

Mario Flagstaff, a miserly skinflint, died when he choked to death on a smoked-gouda stuffed-olive. Non-believers snickered, thinking the whole thing to be a hoax – Mario pulling one of his funnies – though his jokes were never a laugh. No one believed that Mario, a man so full of life, greed, and his own big ego, would ever die. Mario narrowly escaped being tossed into the fiery inferno, then made the long climb up to Heaven, certain the Pearly Gates would be swinging wildly, welcoming the multi-billionaire into heaven. But the gates were locked up tighter than a clam with lock-jaw.

Mario was in purgatory – limbo – awaiting judgement. Mario soon learned that his massive wealth accounted for nothing and he had to earn his way into heaven. Even more astonishing was that Archangel Jeremiel expected him to pay penance.

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