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In The Wood: Father Moses

In The Wood: Father Moses

Author:Emekatansi

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Thriller

Introduction
When inferiority complex steals a twin, and he sees every achievement of others as his own failure, then his mind becomes the workshop of evil, his heart left in the wood. Even the twin is not a neutralizer, the holy realm will not contain his polluted heart, and father Moses is left to wallow in the wood of revenging every success that is not his.
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A young man was running desperately, down a deserted road, and as he was panting, shivering, sweating so heavily, seem panicking, looking back at every three steps, as if trying to check if the one after is closer by, at every jerk he'll let out a fighting groan, then an image of his head being cut off from behind, plays in his imagination, and a louder groan and fear grips him, then the voice of a preacher plays in his head, "when he saw the crowds, he went up the mountain, and after he had sat down, his disciples came to him. He began to teach them, saying".

The young man negotiates a bend, and slips for his legs are so weak to carry him, for the  the turning was too sharp. He got up at once, and the preachers voice continued, " blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven ". He then jumped a wide gutter, fell, got up, looked back again and let out a big scream. At the same time a priest was arranging the books in his office, as when preparing to leave, and the boy continues to hear faintly in his head the voice of the preacher, rending, the beatitudes, then he heard a louder one, " blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied. "At that, he stopped, looked up and the shine from the moon, rests on his face and the sky began to spin, as if he is standing at the center of the world while it turns, with a kind of feeling one experiences, when hypnotized. He fell on the road, looking up, glancing into the moon, as if he can see someone in it, then the preachers voice spoke another beatitude, " blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy " at this, his contempt changed with fear, he, at once stood up running down the street.

The priest exited his office and locked the door, then began to enter the empty main church.

The young man, burst in through the church, looked up and saw the priest, who was dressed in the usual long white garment, black pair if shoes, an expensive chain wristwatch, a purple colour stole on his neck, a well fitted recommended spectacles, then as if the priest faced him and said the next beatitude, "blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

The young man, ran into the church, and at once sees the priest entering the confessional, he ran after him, and knelt in the second room of the confessional. He began to hear voices, and wasn't following what the priest has been saying, his head began to spin as like when feeling some kind of dizziness, then he began to hear the choirs singing and people filling the church, he began to hear the nightingales in his head, he feels at this time as if he was going to faint, then he began to confabulate. He was brought back to present, when the priest who has been n asking him to speak knocked harder on the confessional, almost screamed at him " speak young man " father this are my sins for two days now"

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A flash of light through his face and a flashback shows the young man in suit, well suited, looking elegantly bright but tired, he was just returning from his office, the sun was just about to start setting, everywhere was silent, there was absolute quietism, but some kind of noise was breezing in from the inner room. He opened, "what is going on here, Angela?" His wife Angela was under a man. On seeing him, the man jumped up, picked up his pants shoved himself inside, and was going to ran out through the door when a heavy fist cuffs dropped him, then shower of punches dropping all over him. Angela, who had tied the bedspread around her chest jumped on his back screaming, "Miguel, let him go" she pulls staggering, Miguel off the man, who then ran away, and angrily, he grabbed Angela by the neck, pushing her to the wall, where her head smashed an ignition, and slit the head open, she fell, and Miguel's eyes opens wide. He watched Angela as she drops lifeless, there his memory went to their wedding day, and the priest was ministering to them in the church, then he said, "Mr Miguel, my personal advice today to you is, if your wife offends you in any ways, let me know, and I will deal with her myself, she is my twin sister, I know how to handle her" the voice of the priest continues to echo in his head, while he pulls off his suit, flew out his coloured shirt, running into the street.

The flash went to the present where he looked through the confessional, as if peeping, "father, this is my sin" the priest came out from the confessional, and asked him out in a soft tone, "Mr Miguel, you mean my sister is dead, I think you need a kind of special confession" he threw his hands around his neck, led him to an inner room. As soon as the priest entered, he gave Miguel a book, "start the prayers in the book" Miguel was saying the prayers, with his eyes shot, the priest then shove something into his pocket,"open your eyes" he opened another page to him,"now say this one when you get here say my name" Miguel who is kneeling looked at the place again and asked, "but father it said mi e own name" the priest held Miguel shoulder and gently say to him, "when you get there say, father Moses" then father moses began to walk around the room, while, Miguel's prayers is coming in whisperings, then he said next, "forgive the sin of father Moses, which he about to commit" Miguel said that then looking back gently because of the next line of words, which was boldly written in the book

EXORCISING ME

. He faced, father Moses, who was holding up a knife to his neck, then in a sharp move, cuts Miguel open on the neck, then held him up, grabbing on the hairs, Miguel's bloods was spilling on father Moses, white garment as he say to him, "continue with your confessions, when you get there" he then push him to the floor. He drags him on the floor, out of the room, through the aisle.