The Last Confession
Illustration by ChatGPT Fiction The nuns in the convent were all stunned. Sister Agnes called the Mother Superior Satan . “You hated me. You stole my life. Get out of my room.” Sister Agnes shrieked with all her energy. Sister Agnes was on her deathbed. She was 82 and ailing from many illnesses that made their visitations rather abruptly. But no one who knew her for any length of time would ever imagine she would shout at anyone in anger, let alone Mother Superior. Agnes was regarded as a living saint by most people who knew her. She was a nun who lived an exemplary life of prayer, meditation, humility, and simplicity. Even if someone hurled an insult at her, as it happened occasionally in the convent too just like in any human community, Agnes would dismiss it with her characteristic disarming smile. She never said no to any duty, however lowly. She was considered the best counsellor by the novices. She nursed the sick. She prayed for everyone, even those who hated her for whate...
