The World to Come
Author: Dara Horn
I believe that when people die, they go to the same place as all the people who haven’t yet been born. That’s why it’s called the world to come, because that’s where they make the new souls for the future. And the reward when good people die is that they get to help make the people in their families who haven’t been born yet.Extraordinary stories begin with an extraordinar….Read More
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