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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

tonithegreat March 4 2017, 03:35:23 UTC

But of course hell is that kind of workplace! This was delightful, especially considering it's relationship to the prompt.

halfshellvenus March 4 2017, 08:28:12 UTC

We SO want things to be reasonable, but considering where Griblitz is... why would anything be that predictable.

Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for reading!

shadowwolf13 March 4 2017, 04:31:52 UTC

halfshellvenus March 4 2017, 08:28:24 UTC

Thank you!

eternal_ot March 4 2017, 07:17:30 UTC

Oh!Well..he's doomed!! This was hilarious and quite a clever take on the prompt. Love the details.
"Instead, he was gone for the length of sixty-five conflagrations and twenty-three damnings. This made me Laugh out loud.

Well well written!! Kudos! *Claps*

halfshellvenus March 4 2017, 08:30:22 UTC

Thank you! I've written a couple of things in Hell before, and one of the areas I always wonder about is how you would mark time. There's no sunrise or sunset, nothing obvious like that.

Events, though... that has possibility. :)

Thanks so much for reading and commenting!

rayaso March 4 2017, 16:20:41 UTC

From the trial of Peter Rabbit to rogue trolley cars to hell -- you are on a wonderful, funny twisted streak! The details were marvelous and added to the fun. The idea that this is Griblitz's punishment was great.
Trying to bribe the Devil's staff with the assortment of money, baked goods, hangnails and roadkill toads was absurdly wonderful. This was too much fun for words.

halfshellvenus March 5 2017, 08:08:01 UTC

I'm glad you enjoyed it! Probably not what you thought I was working on, but it was a much more fun use of the prompt than the other ideas that came to mind. :)

penpusher March 4 2017, 21:45:45 UTC

Very cleverly constructed and sprinkled with a lot of funny/gruesome stuff throughout. If hell is anything, it's definitely not fair!

halfshellvenus March 5 2017, 08:09:33 UTC

Much of my childhood was spent struggling with the concept that unfairness was more common than not, and I'm not a lot better with it as an adult!

I almost linked a picture of a marabou stork, but thought it might actually be too much for some people. Those are nightmare birds. Ugggghhh...