Dantes Inferno
Uploaded by CaseyP on Dec 15, 2017
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Dantes Inferno
It was a warm and tensed day. I could not decipher the time of the day, week, month or year since everything in hell appeared unusual. I found myself meandering through the corridors of hell. It was neither morning nor evening since we are talking about a place where light or darkness does not change anything. I do not think that I ever sensed a change in time for the entire period I was in the world of those who are divinely condemned to live in hell. Everything happened so slowly and I sensed that every person who inhabited hell wished that things could move much faster since this would ease the pain they were going through somehow.
The place known as hell looked like a massive playfield. There were thousands of circular cubicles and each of them housed people who were condemned for engaging in similar kind of sins. The cubicles were arranged in rows. In between the rows, there were small paths which I believed were reserved for visitors like me. The cubicles had a small door and the sinners had the freedom to move around their rooms. The floor of the massive playfield was glowing. At first, one could think that the glowing was a form of decoration. However, upon a closer look, one could see that the glowing was as a result of a mild yet painful fire that was coming underneath the surface.
I toured several cubicles as I sought to familiarize myself with the environment that I found myself in. In my meandering, I encountered many people a few of them looked familiar but the majority were total strangers to me. However, all the persons that inhabited the cubicles of hell wanted to talk to me. One of the people I encountered in the second cubicle was a female prostitute whom I had known very well since she ran her sex work business in the town that I grew up in. Her name was Mercy.
When Mercy set her eyes on me, she quickly ran towards me and one of the angels of the devil allowed her to join me in the hallway which was the only part of the large playfield that did not contain the inferno. The following is the conversation that ensued after Mercy joined me in the hallway.
Mercy: So, how come you are not joining your...