The Coming
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Ongoing, First published Sep 24, 2024
It had been a long day, and the drive home proved to be even longer as freezing rain and subsequent black ice quickly turned into wet, heavy snow. Snow on black ice is treacherous, but going slowly, I made progress. As I approached my turn, I looked across the valley; a car spinning out of control crashed into the guardrail and stopped! Flames flickered from under the car as it hung precariously over the cliff.
Throwing caution to the wind, I raced up the hill, slid to a stop, jumped out of my truck, and as I ran to the woman standing there, another woman was slumped over the wheel, eyes open but not moving, and both of them, pregnant! Immediately, I knew them, Mareilene and Dareilene, twins from high school. As I grabbed the door handle, Mareilene yanked me back, looked at me, almost insanely, with blood dripping down her face, screamed,
"Dareilene and baby are dead, and 'He' doesn't know that she was traveling with me. Damn it, Joe, help me! I need to push the car off the cliff and let it explode with them in it."
I yelled,
"What the fuck! You can't do that!"
Mareilene, scared to death, yelled,
"He's coming, Joe, and the only way we live is to let him think it's me and my baby that are dead at the bottom of this cliff. Damn it, Joe, decide! Both my baby and I live, or we all will die! Dareilene and her baby are dead, and Joe, I now know that God sent you here to save me and my baby!"
Her eyes told me the truth, and then, with one shove, the car with Dareilene and her unborn baby plunged off the cliff and exploded in flames. We climbed into my truck, and as I hit the gas, Mareilene, rapidly going into shock, cried,
"Drive like the Devil is on your heels, Joe because He is!"
The Coming . . . God and man, versus the Devil and his minions.
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