Worth Waiting For

Mary, the last Christian lay dying.

No priest stood beside her to administer the Last Rites. No Charismatic Fundamentalist was there to condemn her to Hell. Sick of waiting for the Rapture, the last of them had committed ritual mass suicide four years ago. The Zion-Mecca World War over the last decade had cleaned out the belfrys of both of those houses of religious adherence. The Hindis and Buddists were still out there however, just getting loonier and loonier. Ah well.

Mary died.

Awestruck, she walked down the blue tunnel of light to meet her maker - the One True and Only God.

The One True and Only God sat on His throne at the end of the tunnel, observing Mary's approach.

And so it was that *Bumba, the Congo God of Vomiting* arose and looked down on His newest angel.

"_Welcome to the afterlife!_" *Bumba* intoned, and projected a massive torrent of steaming emesis at Mary.

"_You were expecting *Thor*?_", He asked rhetorically, before repeating His Godly speciality, and not for the last time...