The After-life Processing Center

  • Chapter 1: The Soul Pop Quiz

    “Welcome to the After Life Processing Center – your final step to put a bow on the lives you have and could have led. Your Guide will be joining you shortly, so please wait for a few moments.” Tala blinked. Well, that was anticlimactic. After spending her life fighting the religious types, who insisted after-life…

  • Chapter 2: The Fame Blame

    Amik opened his eyes. A giant TV, a chair, and an old guy in a black T shirt with a heavy metal logo on it. Huh. Wasn’t he just riding his bike down the highway? What was this?  “Welcome to the After Life Processing Center – your final step to put a bow on the…

  • Chapter 3: The Play Doh distraction

    Rahi was scared. This huge room just had a huge TV screen, and she couldn’t see her mommy and daddy anywhere. She did a full circle, ran to see if she could peek behind the TV – but they were nowhere to be found. She burst into tears. There was an announcement on speakers somewhere…

  • Chapter 4: The Wealth Abstraction

    P154 waited for the holograph machine to finish rendering its coffee cup. Though coffee had no taste, no caffeine, no purpose in this realm, the HSS division of the After Life Processing center had taken to adopting this mundane human ritual into its own break time routines.  P1665 ambled over, waited for its turn at…

  • Chapter 5: The Denial of Death Paradox

    “P118098 was it?” “Actually it’s eight-nine, not nine-eight”, P118089 responded. It looked up at the looming bi-pedal, staring at its hand and suddenly feeling an urge to nudge the hand and be rewarded with a scratch behind its ear. Spending a year in the canine unit was causing this strange urge no doubt. It had…

  • Chapter 6: The Improbability of Satisfaction

    P118089 waited for the holograph machine to finish rendering his coffee cup. Experimentally, it opened the mouth on its Homo Sapiens Sapiens rendered suit wide, inhaled and then let it out again. “What in the spiritual realm are you doing??” P6607 remarked, in line for its own coffee. “I was trying this thing humans do…

  • Chapter 7: The Prodigal Perfection

    P118089 was already out of its seat when the barked order came from P154 “Let’s go, newbie” “This LifeGraph is incredible. I’ve never seen an HSS graph with such few possibilities! Sure canines had LifeGraphs with just a few hundred possibilities, but all the HSS souls I’ve seen with you had at least a million!”…