Abel’s Paradise

By Steve Hays

For a split second, Abel felt excruciating pain as a rock smashed the base of his skull. He blacked out momentarily. When he came to, he felt himself floating above his crumpled body. His head lay in a pool of blood.

Cain was standing over the corpse, with fear in his eyes. Then Cain ran away.

Abel was still trying to piece together what had happened. He and his brother were having a verbal altercation. When Abel turned his back to leave, that’s when it happened.

It suddenly occurred to him that Cain tried to kill him. How could his own brother do that?

It then occurred to him that Cain had succeeded in killing him. Was he dead? Is this what it was like to be dead? …

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