 Horror/Scary: May 10, 2023 Issue [#11949] |
This week: Bring Out Your Dead Edited by: W.D.Wilcox  
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Resurrect: to bring a dead person back to life.
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Resurrection
Easter is the most significant Christian Holiday — even more so than Christmas. For this is the day that Jesus was resurrected from the dead.
"He is Risen!" Was the shout heard around the world.
So, what actually happened on that glorious day back in Christ’s time?
Well first, leading into it, Christ performed some jaw-dropping miracles.
The raising of the son of the widow of Nain (or Naim) is an account of a miracle by Jesus, recorded in the Gospel of Luke chapter 7. Jesus arrived at the village of Nain during the burial ceremony of the son of a widow and raised the young man from the dead. That must have surprised a lot of people, including the widow of Nain. This is the first of three miracles by Jesus in the canonical gospels in which he raises the dead, the other two being the raising of Jairus' daughter and of course, Lazarus.
I just wonder what their mental faculties were like after they were back. Was Lazarus just like he was when he was alive? Was he the same man? Did he have a NearDeathExperience?
But, other than the Bible, it wasn't long before writers, and authors, started thinking that this was a pretty good idea to use as a prompt. It was already one heck of a story. Well, then the next thing you know there's Mary Shelly writing a novel called Frankenstein, as well as Bram Stoker penning Dracula. There were now vampires, ghouls, and a bunch of undead running around. Resurrection became a popular 'thing' but for all the wrong reasons.
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DEAD LETTERS
This is the truth as I believe it.
I was camping in the woods and wasn't comfortable. My sleeping bag was tight and I felt like it was strangling me. Plus, the ground was unlevel and hard. I tossed and turned, and the more I turned, the more my bag strangled.
But eventually, I must have fallen asleep.
Sometime during the night, the trees had started to topple; and each falling colossus had chopped down others. The entire region was a chaos of broken timber--trunks and branches titanically rent, splintered, crushed. I wrestled in and out of the ruins as I traveled north in my dream. The wind ripped through the carnage, and I burrowed through the underbrush, scuttling, scraping, hitching, and humping myself along. My muscles shuddered like wet mud. There's nothing left, I thought. And I'll either die soon or wake up from this horrible dream.
But sometimes the sky opens up from underneath and James awoke cramped and chilled beside a pile of dying embers and the sound of a raging river below. He thought that if he could build something to hang on to, he could ride the current and bypass the fallen trees. There was no lack of wood, it was scattered everywhere. He worked on it the entire day until he collapsed exhausted, and slept.
Sometime during the night, he wandered close to consciousness. The next time he looked, he saw the gray of dawn in fragments through the broken trees. Malformed bugs crawled everywhere across the ground, their homes displaced by the ripped-out timber. Some trees were so heavily veined with termites that the wood looked leprous. The smell of rot was everywhere and was becoming more severe. He had to leave. Now.
He slid his makeshift raft into the black river, fell upon it curled into a fetal position, and slept.
What is a dream with no end?
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