Interviews From Heaven By Zoe Zahnle

Joseph

I still don’t know
why I am in Heaven. I think I belong in well, you know. I wasn’t a good man.
Perhaps it was because, despite my bad decisions, I still believed in God. I
was sent here for a reason. Well let me begin with how I got here. I was a big time
risk taker. I hated everyone. I killed tiny little bugs and destroyed others
properties. I spent most of my life in jail. I forgot why. But the thing is God
was with me through it all. I kept faith till the very end. You’re probably
wondering how I died and got here. Well, after I got out of jail I decided to get
married and settle down. Well little did I know that my wife was a lunatic. One
night we were sitting on the deck and she had made us some tea. She slipped a
little something special into mine. What a woman she is. Well then I came to
this weird place. I wasn’t sure where I was. It was really hot and I heard this
really sharp piercing noise. It was horrid.

I started to run towards
a small light I saw. Then when I got to it I found myself by a gate. A man
stood there holding a halo and wings. I looked around and he said, “Mr. Dowel
welcome to Heaven. You made here by a hair. God needs your faith as much as you
need his.”

All I could squeeze
out was, “Oh.”

And so here I was
in Heaven. No mom. No dad. But there was one person. Molly my dear sister. I
finally figured out why I was such a damned person. I had been holding in my
sorrow from when Molly had passed. I was with her and I was happy. I was in
Heaven starting my new life. Here I am.