draliman on life

Gill over at In Touch With Emma challenged me a few days ago to post a photo for five consecutive days and to write something to go along with it. Here is the blurb:

“Post a photo each day for five consecutive days and attach a story to the photo. It can be fiction or non-fiction, a poem or a short paragraph and each day nominate another blogger for the challenge.”

I’m not going to nominate anyone (feel free to join in) but I will attempt the challenge. Five consecutive days? We shall see…

This picture was taken today at Lydford Gorge, in Devon. For Day 1 I’ll write a little story.

Stairway To Heaven

Paul Jeffries (recently deceased) looked at the glowing figure. The glowing figure looked back.

Paul Jeffries (recently deceased) looked down at his bullet-riddled recently deceased body. His bullet-riddled recently deceased body looked back sightlessly through milky eyes.

“So I’m dead then,” said Paul.

“Yup,” replied the glowing figure. “Looks that way.” He regarded Paul’s body. “Looks like it was painful.”

“Hurt like a bitch,” said Paul, shuddering his insubstantial shoulders at the memory. “Hey, are you smirking?”

“Um…” said the glowing figure, quickly covering its mouth with its hand.

“So, you’re an angel?” asked Paul. He couldn’t help noticing that the glowing figure’s eyes had a somewhat red glow to them.

“Um…” said the glowing figure, and quickly changed the subject. “Say, look at this!” He gesticulated and a stairway appeared. “It’s your Stairway to Heaven. Off you go!”

Paul regarded the Stairway suspiciously. “So, and I acknowledge that I may not wish to know the full answer to this question, if that’s a Stairway to Heaven, why is it going DOWN?”

“Um…” said the glowing figure.