Willis, Connie - Why The World Didn't End Last Tuesday

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"Why The World Didn't End Last Tuesday" by Connie Willis

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Why The World Didn't End Last Tuesday : Connie Willis

The meeting, was at Gabe's, and I'd told everybody to be there

at three, but Sara was the only one on time.

"John can't come," Gabe said. "He had to go to Patmos."

"Is he sending somebody from the Planning Committee then?"

I said. We had a lot of decisions to make, and the Planning

Committee always has a fit if you don't follow their plans to

the letter.

"He didn't say whether he was or not," Gabe said.

"What about everybody else?" I said. "Where's Raquel? And

Rate?"

Gabs shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know. Nobody else has

called to say they couldn't come, and you know Phanuel and

his buddies. They're always late."

"I know," I said. The three of them have never made it to any

of my meetings on time, and that time they were supposed to

run up to Mature and tell Abraham's wife she was pregnant,

they were so late she was eighty

But Rafe is usually early. And prepared. And has actually done

everything he was supposed to, which was why I'd put him in

charge of Publicity. And now he wasn't here either.

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"Why The World Didn't End Last Tuesday" by Connie Willis

"It's three-fifteen," I said. "Where are they?"

"Don't get in a tailspin," Gabe said. "So they're a few minutes

late. It's not the end of the world. They'll get here pretty soon."

He turned to Sara. "Can I get you anything, Saraqael?"

She shook her head.

"Michael?" he said to me.

"The rest of the committee;" I said glumly.

"Yeah," Sara said, tapping her foot. "I wish they'd get here so

we could get started. I've got to leave at four."

At four. Wonderful. "Where are they?" I said. "Don't they

realize this thing is only two weeks away, and we're not even

half ready? We don't have a place booked, we don't have the

programs printed, we haven't even started on the decorations-"

"Oh, that reminds me," Saraqael said, leafing through her daily

planner, "I had a question about the seating." She leafed some

more and pulled out a piece of paper. "It says in the Planning

Committee's report there are supposed to be twenty-four seats

for the elders `round about the throne: What does `round about'

mean exactly? Are they supposed to be on the sides or in front

or what? It doesn't say."

Which is why the Planning Committee should be here, I

thought, instead of traipsing off to Patmos. "On the sides," I

said. "If they don't like it, they can change it."

"On the sides," Saraqael said, writing it down. "I hope that

won't get in the way of the rainbow."

"Rainbow?" I said.

"The rainbow `round about the throne, in sight like unto an

emerald,"' she said, reading from the instructions again. "You

have no idea how much trouble I had finding a green rainbow.

I had to go to five different places, and the only one they had

was huge. I'm afraid if the elders sit on the sides the rainbow

will be right on top of them."

TUESDAY" by

Connie Willis,

1994 by Connie

Willis, used by

permission of

the author.

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"Why The World Didn't End Last Tuesday" by Connie Willis

"Have them sit in the front, then," I said.

"Okay," she said. "No, that won't work. The Seven Lamps of

Fire are in front. How about if they sit behind the throne?"

"Fine," I said. "Why don't you go ahead and report on the

decorations, since you have to leave early?"

"Okay," she said, fishing for another set of papers. "Okay,

well, I've got the rainbow and

"Sorry I'm late," Phanuel said. "Uriel and Penemue and I got

stuck at Sodom. They'll be here in a few minutes."

"Can I get you anything?" Gabe said.

"No, I'm fine." He sat down. "What did I miss?"

"Saraqael's making her report on the decorations. Go ahead,

Sara."

"Okay, well, I've got the rainbow, and the seats for the elders. I

don't have the seats for the choir yet because I didn't know

how many we needed."

"Who's in charge of the choir?" I asked.

"Penemue," Phanuel said. "He should be here any minute."

"We'll do the choir when he gets here," I said. "Go ahead."

"Okay, well, I've got the rainbow and the seats for the elders

and the seven lamps

"Fine," I said. "Whatever. Go on."

"Okay, and I've got-"

"Sorry I'm late," Uriel said.

"Can I get you anything?" Gabe said.

"No, that's okay," Uriel said, sitting down. "I got stuck talking

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