“Judgment Passed” by Jerry Oltion
This was one my husband’s favorite stories from Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse, which, yes, is sometimes the sort of thing my friends and I read. Sorry to say it, Mat, but this story blew. Not only was the writing super-ponderous, but the dialogue read like talking points from an atheist blog. At least the story had an intriguing set-up: what would you do if you returned from a space mission to find that the Rapture happened without you? I’d be like:
…but with a much bigger pile.
