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| Fucked Up |
| by Mathias Nelson |
| The scientist was sprawled out on the kitchen floor with an empty bottle of Crown Royal whiskey at his side. All the money in the world could not buy freedom from the knowledge he possessed. His twelve year old daughter rushed to his side and tugged at his arm.
“Daddy,” she said. “Daddy please get up! Why won’t you get up? Are you alive?” The scientist mumbled incoherencies. She pulled harder. “Dad!” He opened one bloodshot eye full of tears. “Wha?” he asked. “What goddamnit?” “Oh!” she replied. “Oh you have to stop drinking. Look what it’s doing to you! " “Hand me a mirror and I will.” His head plopped back down on the hard kitchen floor. She ran out of the room, came back with a handheld mirror, and brought it above his face. “Look.” she said. He gazed back at his reflection, at his messy hair and unshaved cheeks, at his crooked grin and squinty eyes, and laughed. “Well,” he said. “Ha! look what I’ve done. I’ll be damned. Ha-ha-ha!” “I talked to the pastor about you yesterday,” she said. “He says you need to find Jesus. You need to find religion.” “Ha-ha-ha!” She cried, “I’ve found religion. I believe in reincarnation. I believe we are reincarnated based on what we do in life. Dad you’ve got to stop this or you’ll come back in pain!” He stopped laughing and looked at her very seriously. “You know,” he said. “You know if you are reincarnated you will one day see the sun explode. How’s that for an ending! Ha-ha-ha!” “Stop it, dad! Just stop!” “God’s good joke! Ha-ha-ha!” She stood up and shook her head, “No,” and briskly walked out of the room. He yelled after her, “And you know if a black hole comes our way we will slowly feel ourselves start to stretch, and it will feel quite nice at first, but then we and everything else will be torn and sucked into nothingness.” |
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| Jan. 2008 |
| 100 |