Walking through downtown Cleveland through alleys filled with mist and fowl smells. All I had wasw my small cart of glass bottles and trench coat that I found in a dumpster. I was headed back to the shelter when I came to an intersectionout on the east side of town. I pressed the button for the walk signal. The sign changed from a hand to a person crossing. I made my way across the street when I heard screeching tires and a revving engine. A caddie whipped around the corner and was headed straight towards me. I froze like a deer in the headlights. The car slammed into my body flinging my body across the intersection and into traffic. My body was thrown to the pavement and I could squeeling brakes of the on coming cars. For a moment I knew that I was lying there and could hear sirens, but after a while I had no feeling, movement, sight, heering, or sense of smell.



I was able to regain my senses, but I was not in Cleveland, or any place I had ever seen before. Darkness surrounded two paths, one with a carpet rolled across and foods of all kinds. The second path had shrubs and thorn bushes all the way down crowding the path, which made it almost impossible to follow. At the end of the first was pitch darkness, but the other path had a large florecent gate. I was curious about the gate and I did not want to go back into the darkness, so I headed down the rough path. I traveled for a while now, feeling like I was going in circles with the same fowl stench that made it so difficult to breathe. Suddenly a shriek radiated from the wasteland. From behind a boulder a large beast with long fangs, fur like needles, claws like daggers, and red bloodshot eyes jumped out and circled around me. My immediate action was to turn and run, but this only agrivated the demon of an animal. Slowly walking towards me, I backed up and then tripped into a deep swamp of thick mud. This Devil moved closer and closer towards me. Abright light appeared in the sky and seven men in shining armor and massive wings on their backs swooped down to the ground. The monster cringed and snarled before disapating into a thick dark mist. Trying to get out of the mud, one of the men offered me his hand. As soon as I grasped it we were surrounded by a cloud that lifted us up over the wasteland.



The cloud settled in front of a huge gate that appeared to be made of pearl. An elderly man wearing a purple and gold garb with a grey beard and two keys in his hand welcomed me there. He asked me who I was, where I was from, and how I got here. I answered him, explaining about the terrifying creature and the winged men who rescued me. He wrote it all down onto a large scroll and proceeded to open the gate. Rays of light shot out when the door was openedand slowly dissipating revealed a younger man, who came straight up to me and said, "Welcome to Paradise!"