THE SCREAM
During the solemn Good Friday liturgy which was so somber that no funeral of a mere mortal could ever compare, I was doing my utmost to image being there at the foot of the Cross when the thread of life in Jesus snapped and He went to the Father. Then I felt I witnessed a death... Me and my friends had arrived early, but so packed were the pews we sandwiched ourselves in wherever we could. I knelt behind a young, ebullient teen with long raven hair. She was promising her parents she'd be quiet. The liturgy began and so grave were the congregation there was a deep silence resounding. Then suddenly, the raven haired girl fell and her head landed in front of me with an enormous BANG. The second my nervous system thought I had witnessed a death I let out a blood curdling scream. I had not meant to, but she seemed lifeless and the THWACK of her skull against the wood provoked a panicked scream. A doctor, EMT and a nurse rushed towards her from various places in the chu...
