the abyss


from the ABC set ФФ Short Stories

The Abyss.

Hell is an abyss. It is an endless void of darkness. It has no borders or confines, like space, but it is infinity of darkness with no light in it whatsoever. It is a chamber of night from which there is no escaping, not even for lost souls. It is an endless pit; black and cold. It is the place of darkness, desolation and emptiness where the spirits of the damned are confined to, their spirits doomed to roam its borderless confines forever.

Of the evil spirits cast into the abyss there are demons of hatred, envy, pride, wrath and gluttony. Damned spirits who lived their lives in depravity. All told they are a few dozen in number and their spirits float around the void with expressions of pain, outrage and hatred. Originally they were all male, apart from one, when they were still human. The solitary female is the demon of lust. She is as abhoring in appearance as the other damned souls.

They float past and scream the silent scornful screams of the anguish of damnation, and their faces contort in expressions of endless pain and agony. They are horrid, screaming faces floating in the dark. The one comes past with fury, outrage and hatred. It screams and then flies past, soon replaced by another horrid screaming face. And so the souls of the damned fly past, the one screaming in eternal agony after the next, and then replaced by another.

There is no time here in the abyss, just as there is no limit to space. Time in all directions is an eternity, and they are damned forever. They are in the reality of the eternal nightmare of hell that they are in, even though the have no cognisance of a conscious. So they eternally scream in agony and traverse the darkness of the abyss. And Hell is cold, and dark, and endless…

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jacques07 | December 19, 2010 - 09:45

We more and more become the person that we really are...