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// The Moment After 
// Story: Will Ye No Come Back Again? 
// by Judge Holden 
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"There are no atheists in foxholes."
-Unknown



That should have been the end of it.
You can imagine my surprise at regaining consciousness and feeling no pain. I was lying on a side with my eyes screwed shut, and I could actually hear again! My hearing was better now than it had ever been.
Come to think of it, so was my sense of smell. Granted, it was pretty on par to begin with- not to brag or anything, but there was a reason I called it the Super Smeller.
I felt like a million bucks. It was like I just woke up from a nap. The sun was not assaulting my eyes at the moment and the birds chirping and wind blowing made me want to go back to sleep.
My eyes shot open. Birds chirping? What birds hang around a war zone other than Vultures?
Moreover, why was I? Was this the afterlife? When my eyes finally settled, I felt myself begin to shake. My heart began to race. That fight took place in Africa, and it wasn't exactly the grassiest place. It was just sand and rocks, and the occasional dead animal. This place was so green- there were trees all around me and the grass was tall. Toto, I have a feeling we aren't in Kansas anymore.
As my consciousness continued to return and the gears in that dome of mine spooled up, I started to notice something else- I felt different. I mean, yeah, the no pain, sweating, bleeding, and improved hearing, sure. But I mean physically. I felt energetic, more so than I had felt in years. It was almost like my body was completely foreign to me.
Look, God. I know you and I haven't exactly been speaking, but can you help me out here? Look, I promise I'll be a good Christian man from now on!
I finally willed enough power to my neck and I looked over my body, but what I saw wasn't me. I saw the body of a small horse, and for a moment I figured it was laying on me or something, but whenever I tried to move the horse did too. It had red fur, but I saw little else at that point, on account of fainting.
On the plus side, the grass was awful comfortable.



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