Rollercoaster

“Are you out of your mind?” Mandy yelled at Jim.

They were an old couple, used to that type of bickering day in, day out. But Jim would not let go of the crazy idea.

“Do you want to go to Canada Wonderland?” Mandy went on. “After all these years? We’ve been nestling here for almost two hundred years, and now, out of the blue, you want to jump off a roller coaster?”

Jim chewed on his tobacco leaves—his only sin in this nice place in the afterlife—and muttered, “I would’ve gone there eons ago, but I was just trying to be mindful of… of…”

Exasperated, Mandy huffed. Her thin rosy lips tightened. She was about to say an obscenity but refrained at the last minute. “I’m not setting foot in Canada Wonderland again…”

Her voice broke, but she held her head up high. Jim felt sorry for her. Even though she got on his nerves with her meticulous cleaning habits and fanatic organizational skills, he still loved her. But he was determined to jump off that huge, snaky track from the highest peak into the void. What a feeling that would be!

He looked at his wife for a while. She was as beautiful as she had been on that fateful day, although half her face was a little flattened because of that three-hundred-foot fall.

He got an idea. “You can ride in one of those enclosed cars—yeah, why not?”

Mandy shook her head. “Unbelievable!”

Nadia Sharp is a Canadian writer. Her work blends the speculative, paranormal, and fantastical with the real.
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