# Hell on Earth

> What if we were already in hell?

**Published by:** [Pulp Fiction Stories](https://paragraph.com/@pulp/)
**Published on:** 2023-07-08
**Categories:** hell on earth, fiction stories
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@pulp/hellonearth

## Content

Photo by Majestic Lukas on UnsplashDave always felt dissociated when he got a call for a job. It made him introspective and forced him to isolate while he wrestled with his darkest thoughts. This is why he liked being here. The kid was a good distraction.“Is Hell real?” the kid looked up with teary eyes at Dave.Dave sighed and crouched down to one knee and looked at the little girl in the eyes and said, “I’m afraid it is real — but the good news is you will never have to see it.”“How do you know it’s real?” she asked tentatively“Hell isn’t what the books make of it. It's much different than what the bible says it is. Unfortunately, it’s available to all bad men and it will open its doors to anyone who comes knocking.” Dave said“Where is it?” she asked“It’s all around us. Every day, its everywhere. The worst of a person you are the most likely you are of opening up a door and finding your way in.” Dave said quietly.“Have you been there?” She whispered“Oh yes, I have been there. I can say it is a place you want to avoid no matter the cost. It is a place you can far too easily stumble into, and it is the hardest place that ever existed to crawl your way back out of.” Dave said as he stood back up and picked up his jacket from the table.“How did you get away?” the little girl asked.“I had to fight my way out of there and I barely escaped with my life. The shadow people were pulling hard on me to get me to slide backwards into their arms, but I just kept reaching and pulling and reaching and pulling until I could see a sliver of daylight. A sliver of hope.” Dave said.“How did you get stuck in there?” she asked“It’s not like the books say. You don’t die and go to hell. You don’t get punished and go to hell because God won’t open the pearly gates to you. You see, God isn’t what he’s been cracked up to be and there are a lot of stories out there which state that he is all powerful and understanding and benevolent god who sacrificed his son to wash away our sins.” said Dave“What is he then?” said the little girl“Well, I’ve never met him, but I can tell you how it really works based on my time down in the hole.” said Dave“Okay, how does it work?” she asked“Well, we are where the bad people go. You know how people do crimes here and a judge sentences them to time in prison? 10 years for theft etc? Well, when each of us arrives on this planet we get here after having been sentenced from the judge. We had done something bad and were caught and when we go to court, they sentence us to a certain amount of time on this planet and depending on how bad you were you could end up with a life sentence of like over a hundred years if you were really unlucky.” Dave saidThe girl looked shocked and said, “So I was bad?”“Not anymore, now you’re a good kid so you are fine — that was a long time ago, you are perfect now, okay?” said DaveThe little girl smiled.“Okay, why don’t you go and hang out with your mom. I have some business I have to do.” Dave said as he ushered her into the other room.Dave grabbed his gun and checked the clip. It looked loaded and good to go. He put the gun in his secret custom-made pocket on the inside of his coat and he walked outside to his car.He got inside and fired up the custom Dodge Charger which had a 440 cubic Inch beast rumbling under the hood. He put it into gear and headed out on the highway. He noticed that the steering seemed a bit off, so in the same fashion as a NASCAR driver, he started working on limbering up the old car. ‘God, it hadn’t been that long since he drove this thing, has it?’ he thought to himself.Photo by Nathan Mendes on UnsplashHe’d learned that if you zig and zag back and forth you can warm up your tires so they grip the road better and you can loosen your suspension for better responsiveness. It was a driver’s way to limber up the car on caution or pace car laps so that it was ready for when the race was back on. In this case, it would allow Dave better control should he need it…. which he knew he very well may.The 440 naturally tugged the car forwards. It was a huge engine in this Charger and the Charger seemed to know it as it shook and rumbled while the engine started to warm up.Dave knew he had a way to go yet so he settled in and thought of his conversation with his niece earlier.If only people really understood that we are all in hell right now. If a person just thinks about it — it makes total sense. What is life? It’s suffering. It’s endless suffering. You spend your whole life losing and losing and losing. You first lose your youth, then you lose your dreams, then you lose your job when you’re forced to retire, you lose your friends, and you lose your family as they die off one by one.You just keep losing and losing all through life until you get to a point, and you are stuck there wondering what is the point of all of this suffering? You’re too old to do anything anymore, you’re stuck in a bed in an old folk’s home and your body doesn’t work for you any longer — you amiably give into the darkness of the night. You willfully go because you have nothing left to lose.What is hell?It's the death of your dreams and the death of everything and everyone that you ever loved, and you get to watch it all die in front of you. In some cases, you are the reason it dies. I can’t think of a better word to call life than hell in that regard.So, that was it. That is the secret of life is that we are all serving prison sentences for something we did in heaven. We are the angels being punished for their misdeed and God is not this benevolent dictator in the sky, no — he is much harsher, and he is much more ruthless. He demands performance out of his angels and if they fall down too many times, he will send them to hell for a couple of consecutive life sentences.There is no trial — if you cross him he just will skip the due process and send you straight to hell. If you’re lucky, you’ll get the memory wipe, so at least you can’t remember what paradise was like while you suffer through your life. No, if you’re unlucky like me — you’ll remember exactly what the bliss was like. You’ll remember exactly what it was like to feel good all the time and to have energy and spirit.That is the most torturous part of being here. Remembering how good it once was and now knowing there is nothing that can be done to affect change and fix the situation. Dave knew he was stuck in hell for 6 more consecutive life sentences. He was the wrong guy at the wrong place at the wrong time, but God didn’t care. He needed to set an example to the other angels, so they don’t make the same sloppy mistakes.Photo by Marek Studzinski on UnsplashThe bad thing is the son of a bitch didn’t care how many consecutive millennia I had been a perfect angel. Dave thought to himself. I was given the golden wings every performance review for three millennia in a row. No other Angel has ever done that — yet he needed to set the tone for the others, so he gave me the max and stroked off the memory wipe. So, I am in a maximum-security hell with no chance of parole, and I have to serve multiple life sentences.I am unable to commit suicide because that is an automatic re-sentencing. You have to relive all those years again but in a different life so to speak. It’s all about the years served. If you’re a favorite, then you’ll get the cushy sentence of being a millionaire trust fund baby but if you really did something wrong or if you really crossed someone in the legal system then you can count on being someone in a dirt-poor warlord ran 3rd world country where there is no law and nothing but pain.Part of the difficulty of being in hell is that you don’t know how long your life sentence is. If you’re lucky, you’ll die at birth but if you’re unlucky then you’ll be stuck here for a hundred years. It’s why I take risky and highly dangerous work. I can’t kill myself and I need to follow all the regulations etc. but if something happens to me then it’s a quick and easy exit from one life into the next.I look at it like a bit of a loophole. You still have to do your due diligence to make sure that you follow the rules so it can’t be considered purposeful neglect or intentional suicide. So, all logbooks need to be filled out and circle checks done, all tailboards need to be conducted, all risk and hazard assessments need to be done. All of it needs to up to spec on whatever it is you’re doing.If you have a couple of high-risk deaths in a row you can count on being audited, so make sure you have your ducks in a row when you go back to judgment. If they find one case of negligence, then you have to relive that life and any of the lives you lived consecutively after that negligence because those technically would not have been lived had you not died in the instance of the negligence.You are not allowed any credit for heroic acts. If you do one and succeed, it doesn’t matter. If you do one, and you die, then you’ll have to testify as to why it was important that you did that heroic act and prove that you did your due diligence for safety. Hence, the reason why heroic acts are not accepted typically, as they are spontaneous moments of courage that have no planning involved at all.God sure was pissed at me to order me this many life sentences in a row. Not as much as he was at Lucifer when he condemned him to be down here for eternity. That, because he forgot to return his 11th commandment in time to send them down to that prophet. It’s a hefty library fee in the library of God.Still, being aware of what I am - has afforded me certain privileges. I still have my powers so I’m able to affect certain situations and influence the outcome. Oh, I think this is my turn — Dave thought to himself.Dave exited the freeway and made his way into a commercial area. Dave found it suiting that the sky had a real hellish look this morning. He pulled the car in backwards, so it was facing out from the building. He started doing this a long time ago for safety reasons but, these days he does it so he can get out of a situation as fast as possible.Photo by Chris Barbalis on UnsplashDave was twenty minutes early. He decided he would wait in his car until the others arrived. This was going to be a monumental feat if they pulled it off. Dave pulled out his safety checklist and went down it ensuring he was in compliance if he should somehow be lucky enough to die today.Today was going to be an interesting day….

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