Absence of Faith by Anthony S. Policastro Page A

have made many decisions that have affected the lives
of hundreds...no hundreds of thousands of people..."
    The woman's eyes suddenly rolled up
into her head and her body collapsed onto the sofa. A few seconds
later, she picked up her head and gasped for air. She started
talking again.
    "I know who you are. I know you're
the Antichrist and you must be destroyed. I have proof. You are
evil incarnate! You must be stopped. You are EVIL! EVIL! EVIL! I
will not allow you to enter our time!"
    The woman spit into the air. Kyle
moved back on his chair. The spit landed on the rug and slowly
disappeared.
    The woman's eyes rolled downward
and she looked at Kyle. "Oh...Oh...how awful...you killed her right
there! I must stop! That was horrible."
    "What happened?"
    "You aimed a gun at a young girl's
head and fired. You killed her instantly because she spit in your
face. It was terrible," the woman explained. "Her hands were tied
behind her back. She was responsible for disrupting your plans. She
even tried to assassinate you several times. You were some kind of
leader of something big...not a company...something bigger, much
bigger." The psychic's face was flushed.
    "Tell me more! Tell me more!" Kyle
said. "I want to know more!"
    "The girl is the same woman who
will betray you in this lifetime..." The woman turned pale and her
eyes filled with fear. The beads of sweat rolled down the side of
her face.
    "That's all I know now," she
said.
    "Go back! I want to know more!"
Kyle said.
    "No. I don't want to. I can't!
Something evil is trying to escape that time into our own -
something very evil," the woman explained. She reached down into
the pocket in her dress and drew up the two twenties and the
ten-dollar bill.
    "Here, take your money back. I'm
not going any further," she said standing up and holding the money
out.
    "You know more, but won't tell me!"
Kyle yelled.
    "No, I don't. Something evil
is..."
    The woman's hand holding the money
stopped moving forward. Her flushed face froze and her large round
body lost its stature and she collapsed to the floor crushing the
glass coffee table under her weight. The glass cracked into several
large pieces and the table's metal legs were distorted into
unnatural shapes. Kyle leaned down to get closer to the woman.
Suddenly, her eyes came to life and she started speaking another
language in a deep, haunting voice. Kyle was surprised that he
could understand the language.
    "Wait. I want you to know that this
is not the end, Eva. It is the end of the Third Reich and National
Socialism, but it is not the end of my work. I will return near the
end of the millennium. I have been here before and I will come
again," the deep voice said.
    The woman's voice changed to a
higher pitch and spoke in German. "You are a great man, Adolph. I,
too, will try to return when you do so that we can be together
again. Thank you for being my husband these last few days. I will
take the poison as you have asked. Good-bye, my love. I love
you."
    The woman became still and Kyle
touched the woman's hand. It was hot. Within seconds she moved and
her eyes fluttered back to life. She began speaking
again.
    "My greatest triumph is yet to
come," the woman said in the deeper voice. "When I pull the trigger
and end my life here, I will start again in another life and I will
succeed...for next time," the deeper voice said.
    The woman's head jerked violently.
Kyle jumped back. Her body began to shake - her arms and legs moved
randomly in all directions and Kyle backed away towards the door.
Her torso began to convulse. He turned and ran for the door.
Suddenly, the room was awash in blood red light. Kyle turned and
saw that the woman's body continued its wild seizure, but now the
red light surrounded her and her body became brighter and brighter.
Kyle shielded his eyes and he felt his body hurling towards the
door uncontrollably. He hit the door with his right shoulder and
head. Dazed, he found himself on the floor trying to untangle