Voices From Hades by Jeffrey Thomas by Dark Regions Press

Author:Dark Regions Press
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: stories of hell, jeffrey thomas, hell stories, short stories, dark fantasy, horror short stories, dark fiction stories, drp digital, hades stories, dark regions press, dark regions digital

Just prior to the next work period, she was torn by a Demon into bloody shreds.

As the gray Demon with the glowing cracks in its hide twisted her arm to rip away the last rubbery strings that connected it to its socket, in her agony and panic Wanda wondered if this violence were in fact a response to her subversive acts, a punishment ordered by Zaraiah. But as she lay trembling hard and in shock, watching her vivid blood flow down the slope of rock beneath her, she thought that if Zaraiah had indeed wanted to punish her, the Seraph wouldn’t have permitted her to remain on the team of artists and laborers shuttled from Hades to Heaven like children between divorced parents. And yet the same Demon who had pulled her out of line and attacked her now picked her up and flung her into the black metal carriage like a doll, to be transported with the others to the portal. He kicked away her dismembered limb, leaving it to rot, knowing that a new one would emerge from her shoulder in a matter of hours. Pain-wracked hours.

They arrived at the nearest of the portals between afterlifes, and two of the other slaves helped support Wanda so she could walk. They were still supporting her when they emerged from the brightly glowing interior of the pillbox-like structure on Heaven’s side. Her uniform was black but shiny with her blood, which still oozed from her shoulder though the wound had mostly closed already. Wanda lifted her head, her face a mask of glittering red spatter. She saw that Zaraiah was staring at her.

“What happened?” the Seraph asked.

When Wanda couldn’t form words, one of the Damned who held her up spoke for her. “Our Demon Overseer did this to her.”

“Why? Why her?”

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