Short story: A booklover, and book dealer, makes his mark in Heaven

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John Arold used to run a very successful secondhand bookshop. He had to close his shop during the restrictive rules being applied to businesses like his, during the very rigid, and imposing, covid epidemic in his country. He took most of his books home, and thereafter, he tried to sell some books online, from various selling sites there. He found though, that sales were bad, due to the hefty postage, and packaging fees, in his country, as well as these online bookselling sites taking a hefty cut off of his sales too. And when the sales dollars were finally placed in his paypal account, these crooks, (his words) took their commission for their doing this too. After a few years of trying this method of selling, John gave up in disgust. The Post Office had just hiked postage fees once again, and even the cost of his driving out to the Post office was now exorbitant, due to sky-high petrol costs. John became deeply depressed, and bored numb, with his now empty life. John was walking alongside a busy road, trying to at least get a little exercise for himself, when a truck, swerved to one side, when the distracted driver was talking on his cellphone, and so ended John’s life. John made it into Heaven, but when he came up against one of God’s angels to go over his just completed life with him, John did a bunk, he said God is certainly no book-lover then, but he allowed me to be crucified for selling books, and of trying to make a meagre living in my life there, on his Earth. Tell God, if there are no books here, I will not stay here either. John was thereafter given the job of overseer of the books of life, kept by God, one for each soul, and he was allowed to read some of them, especially those that he would later help by helping them to go over their just finished lives with him too. John was at last happy, back dealing with his beloved love of books, once more again. Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com God also has a love of books, and a love for everything else good too.