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LJ Idol Season Ten: "Managerial Discretion"

Mar 02, 2017 13:19

Managerial Discretion
idol season ten | week ten | 1033 words
Take a hike!

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Griblitz loved his job in Hell.

Well, -ish.

As much as one could love anything in Hell. The combination of Hell and "love" was confusing, like a triple negative that kept flipping from Yes to No until it was spinning. Much like his Afterlife, really ( Read more... )

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Comments 43

adoptedwriter March 3 2017, 00:53:31 UTC

I enjoyed all the fine details in this from the nasty food to the seventy-two Shades of Grey! Fun story with a great way to end!

halfshellvenus March 3 2017, 01:09:04 UTC

What's sad is that that's the Limbo food. It isn't _terrible_, it's just not interesting or good. So you know whatever passes for food in Hell has to be really bad.

Glad you enjoyed it!

tsuki_no_bara March 3 2017, 05:49:13 UTC

i love that ending! poor griblitz, consigned to hell as a punishee disguised as an employee. all the details of limbo are so great - the food, the laundry, the cafeteria line - as is the passage of time in hell (marked in conflagrations and damnings).

halfshellvenus March 3 2017, 07:26:24 UTC

One of the fun things about writing a situation like this is that the character has no idea of what the actual reality is-- it all runs through his personal filter. It might be exactly as it seems, it might be entirely different, and not being able to ever know or have any control over it is all part of the deal. :D

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halfshellvenus March 3 2017, 17:48:16 UTC

Thank you! You're probably all too familiar with relocation for job purposes, though at least you get to travel to more than the same two places. :)

i_17bingo March 3 2017, 09:30:32 UTC

I loved this, but especially how utterly mundane you made hell in your world. I imagine they serve boiled tofu in the cafeteria too.

halfshellvenus March 3 2017, 20:25:10 UTC

Thank you!

Ugh, ugh, boiled tofu. That is an excellently disgusting idea!

mamas_minion March 4 2017, 01:38:29 UTC

I love the story and I am surprised Griblitz hadn't figured it out sooner or perhaps that is also the nature of hell. Great story!

halfshellvenus March 4 2017, 08:13:06 UTC

I think there will always be this tendency to assume things are pretty much what they look like-- especially when you have a large-level structure with routine. The idea that the weirdness is a form of torture, or that potentially the entire thing could be a fabrication, just doesn't occur to you right away.

We like for things to make sense! And how it thwarts us when they won't. :D