mirandatime ([info]mirandatime) wrote,
@ 2009-01-13 20:46:00
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Two heavens
Mom, remember every word I say, and write down what I say about the two heavens.

Babies wait in Heaven in the South to be born. They wait in a long line. When it's the baby's turn to be brought to its mom, someone calls its name and says "You're first!" The baby is carried over to where it's prepared for the pelican, crawls into a blanket, a grownup gathers the blanket around the baby and ties the knot, and then the pelican brings the baby to its mom!

In the North, there's another heaven. That's where people go when they die. There's a big building there, with floor after floor. On each floor, there's a bed. There are two people who work there. They live in a house next door. A worker takes the person who died to their room. In each room, there's a bed, not a bed for two people, just one bed in each room. There's no talking or crocheting or toys or reading, because, well, they're dead. The worker puts the person into their bed, and then turns out the light. Dead people don't need any lights. They don't need anything, just a bed.




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[info]mirandatime
2009-01-15 03:22 am UTC (link)
Yup. There was some other detail as well--the workers are the only living people in the building, and they have to carry the dead people up all the stairs. As Miranda says, their life is all "upstairs, upstairs, upstairs."

There are no windows, either. The dead people just lie in the rooms forever.

I thought it was funny that there's even a light in the room, since once the worker shuts the light off, it never turns on again, ever.

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