Flash Fiction: Wings

PHOTO PROMPT © Ted Strutz for Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers. Other stories featuring the prompt can be found here.

Would you look at the line up to get into heaven? White?

“Why do they always wear the white sack?”

“It’s an anti-rape kit sir. Encourages them to keep their parts to themselves.”

“Seriously, on the way to receive wings?”

The angel shrugged, “Earth grew bad. Standards drop.”

“Why not send them to Hell and be done with it?”

“What makes you think this isn’t Hell for them? No pleasures of the flesh, just an eternal itch. A fly on the wall if you will, watching.”

Damn.

“Wait – where are you going?”

“Down, to see what else is on offer.”