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When the Messiah finally comes, what’ll be on TV? | Fiction | Fresh Soup
I tried to write this story to uplift my spirits. It didn’t really work. Next time I feel down, I think I’ll just buy a popsicle or go to the beach.
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In the end, when the Messiah came, Roi felt pretty dumb. He and Hila were sitting in their living room, watching the special TV coverage from the glass-walled studio in Jerusalem. “This is just the beginning,” said the bearded Haredi sitting on the panel of excited pundits. “The coming of the Messiah is not a quick fix like getting a pizza delivered. It’s a process, and I urge our viewers to exercise patience.” Up till now, the news anchor reported, most of the events around the coming had been somewhat marginal: in the ten hours since the initial report of the Messiah’s arrival, not a single person had been born or died, and all porn and gambling sites had crashed, which was not exactly the glory of Mount Zion, but still, a pretty crazy turn of events.