Yoe & I, A Collection Of Short Stories

By Richard Jr Ocaya

Yoe and I, a collection of short stories is a charismatic sci-fi novel between Melissa Selepe, a South African jeweller and Yoe, a spiritual entity who waited for her in eternity to show her a number of lives to help her move on to the great beyond.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Richard Jr Ocaya
• Release date: Nov 12, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223475934

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Acknowledgments

Thanks be to the hard drive gods!

Content warning

Yoe and I, a collection of short stories is a charismatic sci-fi novel between Melissa Selepe, a South African jeweller and Yoe, a spiritual entity who waited for her in eternity to show her a number of lives to help her move on to the great beyond. Although the book is fun, the story includes elements that might not be suitable for some readers. In the book is mentioned orphan hood, domestic violence, sexual abuse, sexual harassment, hate speech, loneliness, graphic deaths, violence toward infants and eating disorders. Readers who may be sensitive to these elements, PLEASE DO TAKE NOTE.

1

Hey, could you get up. Naledi... Naledi... get up.

I’m up. I’m up, I said.

When I opened my eyes to look my heart sank at the sight.

What are you doing? the voice laughed, You can’t faint here.

I remained still.

Fine by me, faint for as long as you want. I’ll just sit and wait by you.

I thought it was a dream not so much an attempt at fainting. I was trying to wake up. I opened my eyes expecting to be in my bed, late for work, expecting a call from Mr Connell asking me why I am late for work and to my surprise, I was still there, wherever there was.  There looked like dream land. That’s the reason why I was trying to wake up, not faint. The thing giggled at my confused expression. As embarrassed as I felt I got up just enough to see this thing sitting beside me. It was a man’s body but not a human one. The entire body grey with sparkles all over its body. I could see no eyes, ears, hair or fingernails; the shape of the facial features were visible except the features themselves, if that makes any sense. I looked at his groin expecting to see a penis but for goodness sake there wasn’t anything, it was doll flat.

Are you done looking at me? You know your naked as well? he said, Are you even listening to me? He continued, You know what? It’s time to go. If you haven’t yet realised... YOU ARE DEAD. It’s time for your judgement. Come on. Let’s go.

What!

Now you are listening, he said, Let us get going.

Fear struck my heart I swear I felt its blade go right through my heart and out my back. He quietly led me as I walked behind it. His walk was gorgeous; it left me feeling like a hunchbacked executioner from the mediaeval times even though my posture was erect, I made sure of it. No one else was around, only him and I with distant mountains, trees and grass beneath our feet which were oddly all violet. Above us was the night sky with the exception I could see distant galaxies and planets with all that was in it in greater detail than when I was alive. Having this ability was amazing, yet, the fear still remained though because I was going to hell.

Naledi, he called, We are going to God’s judgement place. I believed that the name he called me, Naledi, was my spiritually assigned name and so I accepted it without question. I could see God’s judgement place just chilling at a distance. God’s judgement place looked exactly as I thought it would look like when I was alive. I remembered how I came across envisioning God’s judgement place for the first time. It was at TECOCC, The Enlightened church of Christ church back in Bloemfontein. I know, and I hear you, it’s weird. I remembered the message preached by my pastor which made me envision how God’s judgement place would look like. Pastor Bernard, the pastor of TECOCC said, "As it has been written in first Peter, chapter three, verse eighteen to twenty. Christ died for our sins so that we may not be condemned to hell where there is fire and brimstone and gnashing of teeth for all eternity. You see brethren we don’t have to go to hell. All we have to do is accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and saviour. We who have accepted Jesus Christ will rejoice with