Hall of Mirrors,

Tails of Horror and The Grotesque, written and performed for podcast

by Mike Bennett.

This podcast is intended for an adult audience.

This story contains scenes of violence and horror that are unsuitable for persons of a sensitive disposition.

Salvation Part 4 That night Jeffrey sat in his car outside the house of the man he had been sent to kill.

He stared at the windows and the front door,

densing occasionally whenever a shadow passed behind the curtains or an upstairs light clicked on or off.

He opened his packet of cigarettes and lit one from the one he'd been smoking.

What did he have to lose?

Lung cancer was the least of his worries. He was dead already. Judgment

had been passed and his fate was sealed. The best he could hope for was that his eternity in hell might be more comfortable as a demon.

He drew on the cigarette and thought about the things Clive did to him.

The torture, the abuse, the tearing and eating of his flesh.

Jesus Christ. Would he ever be able to do those things to others?

To be that way took a special kind of evil, and he, all he'd ever been was a bully, a bit of a pervert perhaps,

but he'd never tortured anyone for pleasure, or had he?

It depended on how you define torture.

He remembered his wife's suicide note, and his fingers trembled as he drew hard on the cigarette, causing the long ash to tumble onto his jacket.

He looked back to the house.

Maybe he'd be able to get out of hell sooner as a demon.

Maybe he hadn't even been in hell.

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