"Well, Daddy, as you no doubt know -- "

Boyd's still looking out back, but his voice has tightened just a little bit, sardonic. "In First Corinthians Paul says that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God, and I have not yet slipped this mortal coil. So this isn't heaven. And it's not hell, neither, and the Bible's much more specific about the nature of what awaits all sinners."

Of which Bo Crowder is certainly one, if anyone is.