The Wrong Train to Heaven

SATURDAY 11th OCTOBER 2003, exactly twenty days before Hell-oween but today, it is like the horrifying holiday is brought forward. On the very last seat of a Uganda Railways Engine No.9 Extraterrestrial Train Express from Kasese to Mombasa sits three teenagers. The boys are supposedly travelling to an exquisite beach on the East African Coast called "Heaven on Earth". In the middle of the journey, they hear something moving towards the back from the front train carriages. (Adro) Onzi, a Predator Spirit (the god of Death) is mercilessly devouring the souls of passengers and sucking out their blood. The dude near the corridor tells his other two friends to put their heads down as the spirit gets closer. They pray silently until the massacre ends. All the passengers on board are killed except the three boys. They would live to narrate their gruesome experience to the rest of the world. When they raise their heads, they cannot believe their eyes. How have they been spared? 19 year old Ishmael whispers, “What was that?" "We better get out of here before it comes for us also!” Deno, his Classmate advises. “But how?” The frightened trio desperately want to escape from their carriage. So Eli, the Rastafarian, breaks the partly broken emergency exit window using a dead man's walking stick. The boys climb to the top of the train and run like a sandstorm. Reaching a bridge across the Nile River in Jinja at dusk, the lucky survivors jump down in fantastic unison and plunge into the moonlit water. Beautiful ripples of freedom form in the water as the doom train disappears from their view into a tunnel. "Forgive us our Sins, LORD!"

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