YOU DONT DIE WHEN YOU DIE

Author Trevor Hall

Meet James Stevenson: a thirty five year old guy who has a chip on his shoulder. Jame's life is miserable, like a mangy dog on a hot summer day waiting to die. He is fed up with life and constantly looking for some kind of escape from it. His mind is consumed with biter, and negative thoughts. James is mad at the world because he comes from a poverty stucken broken home. He lives on the outskirts of Baltimore in a run down house that was left to him by his parents. He has never been loved by a woman. And is in debt with everyone.

Its 3:30 a.m. and James is sound asleep. There's a knock at the door. James rolls over and glances up at his alarm clock. "Its 3:30 in the morning!" he thought. "Who could this be?" The knocks at the door get louder and more impatient. James tip toes to his window, and gently moves the Venetian blinds. He does not see a car in his driveway, not does he see anyone at his door. Just as he thought whoever was knocking at his door had left, there was a boom. His door was kicked in.

"James I need my 2500 dollars now!" said a voice. "I don't have the money, nor the drugs. I don't have anything to live for." said James. "So be it." says the voice and shoots James three times.

James is dead. In death, James thinks that he will escape his worthless life, but for James Stevenson its just the beginning. His spirit raises up out of his body. He is more conscious of his surroundings than ever before. He looks at his body that was badly murdered and examines it like a snake that has shed its skin.

James puts his head down and starts to grieve over his dead body. He lifts his head up and sees others. James thinks to himself "Are they spirits, ghosts or are they really alive?" Then a spirit looks at him and says "The only form of communication is mentally. Spirits do not understand communication verbally." James begins to realize that he is free from all physical limitations. His thoughts were deeds in this spiritual world. Whatever he thought about was who he was. James would think a negative thought and if there was a negative spirit around the spirit could tell him exactly what he was thinking about.

James is some how gliding in the air. He realizes that he is being carried through a black tunnel. James enters a jet black void of absolute nothingness. This darkness was everywhere. James thinks to himself "God I am so afraid!" He then senses a negative entity in the darkness with him. Mentally he asked the spirit "What has happened?" "YOU FOOL. THERE IS NO GOD. YOU'RE DEAD," the spirit replied as if it enjoyed telling him this. James is terrified. James says "If I'm dead how am I so conscious of my surroundings?"

A gravitational force continues to pull him along. The entity takes James to a place where all of the spirits had committed suicide in there prior life. James knew this because as he passed the spirits, their thoughts were as clear as a conversation. One lady in her prior life had taken 30 xanax pills. She told James that she had spent the last seventeen years confined to the place where she was and how horrible it was. James thinks "Why the hell was I brought here?" Just as he thought this the entity said to him "Your daughter is in this place." Jame's daughter had committed suicide in her prior life.

"Daddy." she said. Jame's cried "Sarah we are finally reunited! I have missed you so much." "Dad I am sorry to have hurt you." she said. He then asked his daughter "Have you come in contact with your mom, grandmother, or grandfather?" Sarah says "I've seen them but we can't communicate with them because in their prior life they were positive people. In the spiritual realm, who you spend eternity with is decided by how you lived your life on earth. If you were a positive person on earth, then you spend eternity with positive people. I committed suicide. So I have to spend eternity with everyone that has ever committed suicide. Dad, you were a negative person. So you have to spend eternity with the negative spirits."

James then asks his daughter "What about where I spend eternity?" Sarah then says "Some things are still unclear to me but I do know that mom is in hell." James trembled in terror. He says "How do you know that?" Sarah says "When mom died I was at her bed side watching over her. When she died large black spirits came and grabbed her and went through the hospital floor with her. Sometimes I can hear her screams from the pit's of hell. If a person doesnt get into heaven when they die and they have relatives who are in hell, from time to time they can hear their love ones screams."

The Entity says "Its time." James responds back "Its time for what?" "For me to take you to your eternal home." said the entity. James replies "I don't want to leave my daughter." The gravitational force pulls him along again.

He is now taken to a place that looks to be a desert. Negative spirits surround him. Their thoughts were so negative that they literally made James sick to his stomach.

Every spirit was negative. They rejoiced upon his arrival because misery loves company. The spirits cursed each other. Some tried to kill each other. They moaned, groaned, and complained all day long. This was indeed a horrible loveless place.

James saw the spirits of past friends that were negative thinkers. Every thought that James had was clear to every spirit that was around him. If James would think something bad about a spirit, the spirit would immediately know it. This always caused lots of confusion. If he had thoughts of lust around the women spirits they would know it. Jame's every thought was as clear as a windshield. The spirits spit at him and laughed at him. They mocked him saying "This is forever."

Some of the spirits hung in clicks. Others chose to be miserable alone. There was never any sleep in this God forsaken place. Horrible screams filled the air. James was a wreck mentally. He bit his finger nails so much that the skin underneath them had turned black. His every thought was monitored by the spirits.

James thought "God I know you won't leave me here forever." Then suddenly a black spirit said to him "YOU FOOL THERE IS NO GOD HERE. THERE IS NO DEATH HERE. DEATH IS NOT AN OPTION. YOU CANT DIE. ITS FOREVER AND EVER." and then the spirit laughed. James started to curse God. "Why the hell was I sent to this horrible place God? Was I really that bad of a person? If there is a God get me out of here." A few minutes went by and then James said "God DAMN YOU."

Suddenly James notices that he is isolated from all the spirits. James then sees a throne. Someone or something was sitting on the throne with their back towards him. Then a voice said "I'm not getting you out of here. I am who you worshipped. When you were of the living, it was me remember; NEGATIVITY. You worshipped me with your negative thoughts. Don't you see? This is where you will spend eternity my son."


Narrator/Trevor says According to the bible, God created the Heavens and Earth. It is man's and woman's perogative to create their own particular and private hell. Case and point Mr. James Stevenson, who in every aspect, has made his on bed and now must lye in it. In closing, our thoughts are really who we are.