Love and Death 101

By William Long

What happens when freewill gets in the way of what was meant to be and throws the entire universe off?  Emma is newly dead and finds out her afterlife is not exactly what she expected and that her life could have been much better than it had been. Now she must fix what went wrong and set the universe right for love to survive.

• Language: English
• Publisher: William Long
• Release date: Jan 13, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201839147

Book preview

Chapter 1

Emma loved the wind rushing through her hair! She was standing on the passenger’s seat of Frank Vaughn’s 1988 cherry red Mustang as it flew down a deserted desert road just north of Scottsdale Arizona.

Faster Frank! She yelled Faster!

Frank put his foot down on the accelerator and the car rocketed forward and Emma felt exhilarated, almost like she could fly. She loved her and Frank’s Sunday mornings drives, she was very pretty 5’4" with bright green eyes and curly long blonde hair.  Emma had a mundane 9 to 5 job as a legal secretary for a large law firm in Phoenix, but she had recently decided to go back to school to become a social worker. She felt she wanted to do something more with her life to help people in some way.  Emma was also a risk taker, she loved fast cars, parachuting, rock climbing, cliff jumping, extreme sports and anything else that was dangerous and made her feel alive moreover, it always aroused her. She loved sex; she had since she was a young girl and had her first sexual experience with a much older man. She told herself and her therapist that she had come to terms with that issue years ago and her therapist always told her that she would not be seeking out such danger if she had. Emma often wondered why she still went to see this guy he didn’t seem to really help, but she did like to be able to talk to someone about most of her past. Emma never did talk about her past with any of her boyfriends, with the exception of one but she tried never to think about him.

Why are you thinking about him now she thought to herself the sun is warm and the road is clear, fuck him, that fucker!

She reached down and grabbed Frank’s crotch. He would be expecting this she knew; he only agreed to be this reckless because he would be getting some very hot sex very soon. Frank was a good guy; he had been with her for five years. He had put up with all her eccentricities and carnal desires as so many before him could not or would not. She had to admit she was in love with him and he would have said he was in love with her. They looked at each other for just a fleeting moment, but that was all it took. A car ahead of them had not fully stopped at the stop sign and rolled slowly into the road and with a deafening bang the cars collided. Jen was thrown from the car, she briefly registered the sensation of flying and was elated; she never felt the hitting the ground. She died instantly.

Chapter 2

Emma sat up quickly as if waking from nightmare. The first thing she noticed was that she was in a very stately bedroom with a mural on the ceiling depicting cherubs also that she was in a beautiful four poster bed , and had no memory of getting there. She was neither hot nor cold but did notice a lovely scent of roses coming through the open French doors. Jen got to her feet and looked out the doors to see a beautiful and expansive European style garden with a large fountain in the middle. She noticed she was wearing very nice white silk pajamas and they did feel good on her naked skin. She walked to the door of the room, opened and looked out of it and saw what looked like a hotel corridor that went on and on in both directions.

Well, how did I get here? She asked herself Last thing I remember is...

She went back in her room and sat on the edge of the bed trying to remember the last thing she was doing, but just could not.

Ok, I will call the front desk and find out where I am she said and got up and looked around the room for a telephone. When she could not find one she started looking for her purse, which would have her cell phone in it, which she did not find either. She then decided to get dressed and just go down to the lobby and find out what was going on. She went to the wardrobe in the room, but it was empty as were all the drawers in the dresser.

This is crazy, what the hell is going on? she said

And as if in response to that question there was a knock at the door. Emma walked over a little apprehensively and opened the door just a crack to see who it was.

Emma Lynn Turner? said the soft slightly accented voice of a very beautiful women; she was tall and tan with long black hair brilliant blue eyes, a slim lovely figure that any number of super models would sell their souls for, and all wrapped up with a beautiful almost angelic face.

Yes Emma replied hesitantly

Follow me please; I am here to show you to your meeting with Tina. She said

Tina? Emma replied Who’s Tina and where am I, the last thing I remember...?"

Tina will explain all, please follow me The woman said calmly as she turned and headed down the hall.

I don’t have anything to wear in here! Emma exclaimed

No matter, follow me please the woman said, over her shoulder still walking down the hall

Emma followed the woman down a long corridor to a beautifully carved spiral staircase which led them out in to what looked like a grand entrance hall on the scale of something Emma had only seen in Las Vegas. The woman then led Emma to nicely appointed waiting room, by now she was fully aware of everything and then came a flood of memory and emotions. Just as she realized something had gone terribly wrong on her and Frank’s Sunday drive. Another beautiful girl entered the room and called her name. Emma looked at her and thought it was the first woman having a little fun at her expense but realized quickly that this was a completely different girl, but,

Damn they could be sisters she thought.

Emma followed the woman down another long corridor to an impressive set of carved double doors, Cherubs again. The woman opened the doors and Emma followed her into a large office, there was a fireplace complete with a roaring fire off to her left and a large set of bookcases to her right. To complete the picture was a very handsome woman sitting behind a large carved wooden desk which Emma noted shared the motif of the door, and just like on the ceiling of her room. Beyond the woman was a large window that looked out over the beautiful garden Jen had seen from her room.

Miss Turner the woman said and gestured to a chair in front of her desk. My name is Tina and we have a few things to discuss before you can move on.

Move on? Emma questioned Move on from where? What is going on?

Well Miss Turner, you are dead. Tina said. We are here to discuss your unfinished business

Unfinished business, what are you talking about? What unfinished business? Emma again questioned Oh God you are not telling me I have to be a ghost until I figure out what I was supposed to have done when I was alive are you?

Tina, who had the same dark hair and shocking blue eyes of the other women