Extract from Captain Stormfields Visit to Heaven: Unabridged

Written by Mark Twain

Narrated by Frank Harrison

Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit To Heaven (1909) is a science fiction short story by Mark Twain. Excerpt from the book: "Well, when I had been dead about thirty years I begun to get a little anxious. Mind you, had been whizzing through space all that time, like a comet. Like a comet! Why, Peters, I laid over the lot of them! Of course there wasn't any of them going my way, as a steady thing, you know, because they travel in a long circle like the loop of a lasso, whereas I was pointed as straight as a dart for the Hereafter; but I happened on one every now and then that was going my way for an hour or so, and then we had a bit of a brush together. An ordinary comet don't make more than about 200,000 miles a minute. Of course when I came across one of that sort—like Encke's and Halley's comets, for instance—it wasn't anything but just a flash and a vanish, you see. But after I got outside of our astronomical system, I used to flush a comet occasionally."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Audioliterature
• Release date: Dec 21, 2017

Mark Twain

Mark Twain, who was born Samuel L. Clemens in Missouri in 1835, wrote some of the most enduring works of literature in the English language, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc was his last completed book—and, by his own estimate, his best. Its acquisition by Harper & Brothers allowed Twain to stave off bankruptcy. He died in 1910.