19. Fallers

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  People started falling from the sky by the close of the decade. They were never clothed, always 

naked, always a petrifying grin on their faces.It had been just a few at first, but then hundreds 

and thousands would fall at a time, destroying cars, homes, blocking off highways.Strange 

discoveries were made upon research; they were human, but lacked any blood, intestines, even 

a heart. No one could explain the hideous grins they had, or even where they came from.It was a

 woman in Costa Rica who made the latest and most disturbing discovery. She recognized one of

 the fallen bodies as a long dead relative, one who died back when she had been a teenager. 

Then more and more identifications were made.Soon people were picking out their long dead

 loved ones amongst the video feeds, cadaver piles, and crematoriums. No one could explain 

why they were coming back, falling from the sky.Even more distressing, after disposing of the 

bodies, it wouldn't be long until that same body came plummeting from the sky again. You 

could not get rid of them, no matter what. People were getting killed by the higher volume of 

falling bodies, and soon after burial, they too, began to fall.My mother was killed when a body 

landed on her car, crushing her. The next week, the news reported on a body that had gotten 

lodged in an airplane windshield. I saw my mother's grinning face, the happiest I had ever seen

 her.They say when hell is full; the dead shall walk the earth. What about heaven?  

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