World of Hell

Benjamin is a man who thinks of nothing but success day and night. His life is a tragedy since he never succeeded in anything and has tried everything he knows to be at least successful in something. He believed this world and everything in it is made for him and everything rotates around him, this made him selfish, unforgiving and unadvisable.

It occurs that a day came that changed everything in his life of failure. He was sitting in the corner of the street in the town where he lived when a strange man approached him wearing an ankle length jacket and a very big cowboy hat that shades his entire face. He looked at the man and could immediately sense something strange about him. The strange man said, “My name is success, I am your dreams and I came as your salvation.” Benjamin was surprised, he stood up trying to figure out if what the man was saying is true or not. Benjamin said, “What do I have to do to be successful in life.” The strange man replied, “I have all the power in the world to do anything you may wish but I won’t lie to you, I want your soul in return.”

Benjamin was terrified. He was now shaking in fear and he said, “Are you the devil? Can it really be true?” The strange man replied, “Yes I am and don’t be afraid, I know God abandoned you long ago but I have come to give you heaven.” With that the strange man transported Benjamin to a strange place.

Benjamin and the strange man were standing in a small piece of land in the middle of a lake. Not far to the east beyond the lake there was a beautiful palace built out of golden stones and had a transparent roof made of shinning diamonds. There was an enchanting garden surrounding the palace and in it was every kind of flower. The sunset made a spectacular display of the palace.

Benjamin asked as he fell down on his knees with amazement: “Is this Heaven.” The strange man replied, “No, this is what I will give you, I will also make you the president of your country and give you all the wealth you can imagine.” Benjamin said, “Give it to me please, I’ll do whatever you want. The strange man replied, “I only want your soul.” Benjamin was so amazed by what he saw that he didn’t even consider the consequences, so he just replied a yes.

At once he woke up at this beautiful bedroom, he looked out the window and found out he was indeed in the palace he saw and he was the president of his country with all the wealth he ever dreamt of. He was so happy that he felt he was in a heaven. It was heaven for a whole week until he was suspended from presidency due to lack of experience and later permanently fired. He soon found out he was in deep depth and had to sell his palace and all his wealth.

Benjamin was sitting down in the same corner of the street cursing himself for being so foolish in trusting the devil when the strange man reappeared and approached to him again. He was so angry about his life’s disaster that he started blaming the strange man and demanded another palace. The strange man said, “I have not come to give but to take what belongs to me.” He laughed in an evil way and continues,”You and I are so much similar.”

Benjamin was so afraid he was shaking and said, “No, please you can’t take my soul, I still want to live. Please God help me, I know now that you exist, please hear my cries. The strange man laughed hard. Benjamin felt something like a stone blocking his wind pipe. He struggled to breathe and tears came out of his eyes. He fell to the ground as people rush and gathered trying to help him. He saw them pass through the strange man as if he wasn’t there. Benjamin was in great pain as he peed into his trousers. After a few minutes of struggling gave up and died.

He woke up in a strange place where the whole earth was a yard of endless graves. The sky was dark and misty and there was neither living plant nor a rat wondering around. “Is this the world of the dead” he thought. He was alone and suddenly the strange man appeared and said, “Welcome to the world of hell also known as the world of the dead. You will be here alone with your regrets until the end of time. This is the place were lost dreams and hopes reside, where all life end in tragedy, Where everyday you will endure the same endless pain, where there is no hope and no love. I am the bringer of death and this is my home, our home Benjamin, forever.”

What happened when I can't find love?

Charlie found himself on a date with the most beautiful woman in the world. His date Jessica is a girl about his age. They were sitting in a restaurant having a meal together. The place had less people, so it was quiet and a soft music was playing. He held her hands in his admiring her soft tender skin. "Gorgeous, brilliant, awesome, lovely, cute" Charlie thought. He did not notice that as he was thinking he was whispering those words. Jessica said, "Thank you Charlie that is so nice." He immediately blushed because he was very shy around her.

All that Charlie could think of that day was his girlfriend Jessica. They have recently just met and now he was so crazy about her. He brought her home in his car and then drove to his apartment. Before he got there he stopped when he saw his friend Cheryl. She was looking more beautiful than the last time he saw her. They are very good and close friends who share almost everything and they were so open to each other. He called her and gives her ride to where she was going. They talked a lot about their lives. He was surprised that she was looking at him in a different way than usual. Once he dropped her he rushed to his apartment. All that was in his mind was Jessica; her voice was still repeating itself over and over in his mind.

The next morning he was desperate to see Jessica again. He was sure he had missed her a lot even though it was just one night. He called her on her cell phone to tell her he was coming; she just said its okay.

Within an hour he was there. When he out of his car he saw Jessica. She had worn a beautiful knee length dress that showed the figure of her body and she was smiling and talking to someone. That's when he saw a guy talking to Jessica. He held her in his arms, kissed her forehead and said "you look beautiful today, what's up?" She replied, "ah nothing much, just the usual." Charlie was very angry and jealous. He couldn't believe another guy was trying to take her precious girlfriend and that she is cheating on him. He walked towards Jessica and said, "Hi." She greeted him, hanged him and gave him a kiss. Charlie was still disturbed. He was hurting inside but couldn't confront her. The other guy seemed to not mind Charlie's presence. Charlie tried to cover up his feelings and faked a smile but Jessica saw right through it and asked, "Charlie what is wrong?" Charlie replied "nothing." Jessica then said with a sense of regret "Oh, I'm sorry Charlie. This is my brother Jeff. Sorry that I didn't tell you." Charlie was relieved.

Charlie got a call from his room mate Christopher and he said "Hey Charlie, I got some very important information about your girlfriend Jessica that I have to tell you. I just heard that recently she was caught making love with her brother at their home, their parents were so embarrassed but Jessica was proud of it. No one yet knows if Jessica and her brother are still in love but Charlie be careful, you might be walking right into a trap. I'm leaving for the weekend and will be back on Monday, good luck Charlie." The call ended.

Charlie's fingers were shaking as he couldn't believe what he just heard but it leaves him with no choice but to believe. Jessica said "What's wrong Charlie?" she had a troubled face and seems to be worried about him. Charlie replied "How could you. After I loved you and trusted you why didn't you tell me Jessica? How could you and your brother do such a thing?" Jessica smiled "oh you found out that's nice but too bad you and I didn't last that long. I'm a paper chaser boy and this here is my only love. Let's go Jeff." Jessica and Jeff hugged each other and slowly walked away. Charlie was so heart broken he couldn't even think straight. Jessica's last words pierced through his heart like a knife cutting with no resistance at all. He got on his car and drove back to his apartment.

Once he was there he cried and cried until he fell fast asleep. When he woke up he took his phone and browsed for a friend's contact to call. He called Cheryl and told her what happened. She told him she was coming over right away. Charlie told her he was never found love in his life that worked out for more that a week. Every time he thinks he has found the one, soon he finds out it's all just a game. He told her that this was not the first time it happened; it is actually the fifth time. Cheryl looked at him with a sorry in his face.

Then Charlie said "I tried dating all kind of girls but none of them worked out." Charlie had a concerned look in his face as he continued talking to Cheryl "oh no, how could I have missed it when it's right in front of me. I have tried all the girls except," there was a brief pause. Charlie looked at Cheryl and said "Cheryl, I love you."

Will love you even if it kills me

I remember the day we met, how we looked at each other with innocence. I remember your so ever gentle touch, so gentle it cause my whole body to shake with passion. Gordian is the girl who stole me. She is the one who dropped from the clouds, whose love feels like I'm in clover and who collects me when I'm shattered into debris. Her love is of angels.

I was walking through town when I saw Gordian sitting down alone on the grass under a tree. The sun was hot but the air was moist. I looked at her faced down face and could see a storm in her mind. I walked up to her, kneeling down as I held both her hands in mine. "Are you feeling alright" I asked. "Yes, No" She replied as tears start dripping from her eyes.

She looked at me with her dark eyes shining and full of tears. I couldn't help it but share her pain. I took my hands and wipe the tears off her cheeks. I asked "Can I sit down here with you for a while?" She replied "Yes" More tears ran down on her pretty face and she continued "How do you do it? How do you survive everyday with a girl like me? I am a burden to you just because I am too weak to get over my sorrow. None of this is any of your faults. "Sssssh" I said in a gentle tone. "Gordian, I don't know how or why but you are like a diamond so precious that you share a special place in my heart. Don't blame yourself. I loved you knowing there would be rainy days to come. Since we have met you loved me though I was a bad egg and you made me realize I am the one to be. Ever since I met you, you are a hail-fellow-well-met, a gem of the first water, the goose that lay the golden eggs of life and a soul of honor" I told her.

I said "Even though you're holding on to the past for too long now. I will be here standing beside you always. These sorrows of yours hold you in the leash but I hope you keep a stiff upper lip. For you will never be overlooked. I am not the one who leaves in the lurch or make mincemeat of you. I'll stand my ground when the lion roars Gordian. The rainy days will be over soon and we will float on air once again. Always remember that we are not the hopeless but the hopeful. I know care kills a cat but if that is what must be for me to find heaven with you again. I'm willing to love you forever."

Saint of darkness

I woke up and felt as if I had slept for years. As I slowly opened my eyes I thought what I saw was a dream. I blinked my eyes several times to find out what I saw is reality. I was shocked at the moment because what I saw was too bad to be true.

I was sitting in a small piece of round land that when I looked down from the edges I could see I am somewhere about fifty kilometers above the ground below. Down there I saw horror and in the bright red sky I felt terror. At that moment I started to think back what had happened to me to find myself at this place.

It came back to me now that I was dead and my last memories alive were that of the doctor comforting me to a peaceful death. My death was not an accident because I was told I caught a rare incurable disease and my days left on earth were counted and given to me. I had lived them normally. To the features of this place I was very sure this was not paradise.

Now the painful sensation of not being counted amongst the living came back to me. I was sure I'd make it to Heaven when I died but here I am in the world of the dead. I just know now that I've passed the point of no return that some people call hopelessness. I had run out of time, the precious time I wasted digging my own hole to the world of the dead. I sat there with hate and regrets.

A thought came to my mind that there was no point in avoiding the inevitable by sitting on this piece of land since I am going to spend eternity here. Its better I go down and get to know some of these damned souls. We were all children of evil being ruled by the one devil, the deceiver of all creation.

I looked down at an event, there were many men drinking all kinds of beer. They were so drunk that some of them couldn't move from where they where sitting. At another side there were a group of men doing all kings of immoral acts. I saw fathers rape their daughters and brothers rape their sisters. At another side I saw mobs fighting each other for the price of pride. I saw them kill one another and bathing in blood. Just as they are dead they disappeared only to reappear in the sky and fell down to the ground and from this sight I knew I was in the last world.

I looked at another side and saw new souls falling from the sky to the ground below me. This whole world was burning in eternal flames but those who have spent some time here are used to these flames. The new souls got burnt by the fire. They were not physically burnt but were enduring the pain. I saw them jump all over, some of them lying in the ground kicking their legs wildly in pain. They were all screaming and crying.

I began to think back to when I was alive to find out where I had gone wrong. I was once counted amongst God's children. The darkness got hold of me and held me tightly. I kept on holding to the few words of the Lord but each day every second they fade way into the nothing. Although the devil contributed to my fall I was the one who deceived me.

Believing is a powerful mechanism. In it contains the power to accept what lies right in front of me. I was a fool then to think I was okay, to just let the darkness easily enslave me. When it got too dark I'd run away to church but that wasn't the solution since God is more than the church and so the church was just a disguise, a postponement that my faith was really falling apart. I was losing hope then and that is why I started believing that Heaven was not meant for me.

And now here I sit already too late to redeem my soul. While sitting here I realize faith cannot be built out of someone's words, a miracle or something done. It has to start deep in the heart as a ripe fire of desire for the only God. The faith that I truly had but locked it within the chambers of my heart neither depended on where I am, how I am, what I am, when I am nor who I am. It is the same faith that gave the angel Michael the power to lead his angels to defeat the devil and throw him out of Heaven and all his angels. The same faith that made God takes the image of man in an attempt to redeem the entire world of sins and to draw his people close to himself. I t will be the same faith that will allow the Lord to return and harvest the earth of all his people.

Here I am surrounded by eternal darkness full of shame and regrets. Now that I am in hell my faith in God has grown more and I am willing to celebrate his glory here in hell the home I chose for myself out of weakness and deception. I know God never changes and his word remains true but I remember his word in the book of first Corinthians chapter thirteen verse thirteen "meanwhile these three remains: faith, hope and love and the greatest of these is love."

So if I still have faith and love and holding on to my hope while I am in hell, my soul is therefore not damned and so with these three; faith, hope and love the sky shall open and I shall feel the shade of God.

The Most Wanted Dreams

"I assure you that if you enter that place you shall not return alive. Yes, the place is enchanted with the most wanted dreams waiting to be found but no one yet has made it through since ancient times. If you must go my friend you have to remember that God lives and I wish you luck throughout your journey." Tshilidzi said. He is a true expert in supernatural and theological wisdom. I stood at the gates of the enchanted land full of doubts. My dreams lie inside there but I am afraid, truly afraid.

As a child I've always dreamt of finding the explanation to my parent's disappearance. Researchers say they left a book inside a mansion situated inside the land. Inside the book they wrote all their secret discoveries before they disappeared. Finding it won't just fill a hole of loneliness in my life but it will uplift the burden that lay upon my soul which caused me to live my life in fear and distress.

After a few minutes courage took over and I set the first few steps on the dry grass across the wide path that lead to an old mansion. The place was surrounded by very tall trees that had brown leaves because of the autumn season. This made it quiet and lonely. I reached the front door and opened it. As I did, I felt as if I'm reopening an old cut in my heart wherein I could not tell if there lies something pure or evil. As I looked around I felt as if something is watching me. I was getting more afraid the longer I am in this mansion.

I went upstairs and in the first room I found the book. I took it and then went back down stairs. I felt as if there are things moving on the ceiling. When I looked up my eyes widen in horror. There were snakes hanging upside down the ceiling. I felt something touch my toes and when I looked down, the floor was full of snakes. I could no longer see the carpet and me legs were tightly tied together by the snakes. I started to play back Tshilidzi's words.

Suddenly a strange looking man came down the stairs. He's face was very dark and he looked unhealthy. He had worms all over his body and he asked "Weren't you told that no one enters this place and leaves alive?" His words were like a spear in my heart as I felt I was about to lose my precious life without achieving my dreams. After all what is the point of touching your dreams and get petrified. I began to beg messy at this man but he told me he is not the one with grace. Tshilidzi's words were getting louder as they played again and again in my head.

Then as I started to give in to defeat the man said something that stunned me. It did not discourage me but gave me a new perspective of the trouble that came to be. He said "Yes I am evil and so are you; if not so you would be walking out that door in one peace. The law here says only the pure heart can open that front door. I am here because I too was trapped decades ago like you are now. The things you see are nothing of my doing but your own. The more evil you think, the more you trap yourself." It was as if everything made sense now.

I close my eyes and shed a tear as the happy days of my life flooded my mind. I thought of the good people who I have failed to thank, even God himself whom I breathe. I opened my eyes to see all the snakes gone except the old man who was well now. I found the secret I came looking for. My fear, pride and loneliness are all part of my mind. I'm the only one who can hurt my heart and the only one who can damn my soul. What I believe in determines the strength of my soul. When I looked around the house it was now beautiful, it had an exotic smell. I went to open the door but it appeared locked then the strange man said "oh, there is one more rule. No one leaves this place alive." Again his words scrapped my heart. Once again he crushed all my hope. How can I die when I need to change the world? The story cannot end like this, I cannot be the tragedy. I looked up at the heaven and begged once more for messy. I saw a sight that changed the roots of my soul forever. The sight triggered a chain reaction in my heart so that it pumped forever love through my veins.

I saw the Holy Spirit come down. His power was immense that I tried to find shelter of some kind. I could not bear to look face to face with him, I felt unworthy that he was too precious. He said in the gentlest voice I've ever heard "For now that you believe you have died and you're now born again. You are a new soul whom Jesus is with you forever wherever." He went back up to Heaven and I felt a new strength. For the first time in my life I was not afraid to die. I went to the door and as I open it I seem to have heavenly authority over the door and it opened. The bright light from the sky hurt my eyes. I went to the gate and gave the book to Tshilidzi and said to him "Thank you my friend, I have found what I have seek but my true journey begins now and my dreams are yet to be unleashed for my life is in God." Then From a distance I heard my parent's voices calling me.

The Gentle Eternal Sun

I looked up to the red sky and admire the red sunset as few clouds covered the sun a bit as he went down behind the mountains. “He is a brilliant in his own nature, independent and giver of all life” I thought to myself. As I watched the sky carefully it felt as if it was the last sunshine I would ever see, as if the sun has done his job and now going away forever and as if his fuel has run out. My entire village is surrounded by gigantic mountains on all side, in winter we hardly get any direct sun light. The people of this village believe that long ago their ancestors upset the sun god whom in anger drove the community to hide in this little village but to myself I thought “How can the sun as gentle as he is not forgive the community. He is the gentle eternal sun.”

The sun disappeared and left a glow on the West Mountains but from the east a huge mass of clouds was moving across to the west covering the sky and bringing almost total darkness to village. My parents told me to go inside the house and once everybody was in, the doors were locked and the candles were lit. I looked outside the window, it was so dark it seems as if our house is the only house drifting in an endless space of darkness and even the sky was totally black. I began to feel afraid and longing for the sun, longing for the storm to be over.

As I was still looking out the window a lightning bolt hit a tree, instantly burning it to the ground. The light was so bright I could see everything in the village as if it was daylight and the thunder was so terrible that the roof of the house was shaking and the window was vibrating violently. I too was shaking and scared to the last degree. My mother took me and put me to bed and told me to go to sleep and that when I wake up the storm will be over. As I drifted of to sleep I heard raindrops falling hard on the roof.

I felt something smooth like a snake circling my leg, and I could still hear the rain falling down on the roof. I went back to sleep for a moment then I felt as if all my blankets were wet. I thought to myself if whether I might have wet my bed, but no it was too wet. I thought that maybe there was a leak on the roof and rain water was dripping on to my bed. With the thought of that I drifted off to sleep. I dreamt myself swimming at a beach, it was holiday times and the beach was full of people.

As I swim there for a long time I lost focus of my surrounding and later I realised that the beach was no longer there. I was far in the middle of the water. I panicked and looked at all sides and I could not see any sign of land. My heart was beating very fast and I was confused and didn’t know what to do. I closed my eyes right there and pray. As I prayed I heard someone calling my name the voice was coming in all directions. I could not recognise the voice but then I heard my mother’s voice in a distance. I felt rain falling on my face, I felt cold and then I woke up from my dream.
 When I opened my eyes I was terrified and instantly shocked, I closed my eyes and open them to find that it was real. I was in the middle of mountain of water as the waves raised the water so high into the sky. I wasn’t swimming but just floating on the water. I heard my mothers’ voice calling me and when I looked at here direction I saw here on top of our roof as our house float on top of the water. The house and my mom were on the very top of the wave as I was stuck below in the middle of two mountains of waves. Every now and then the water would rise me up and drop our house down below.


After some minutes we were both on the top but on different waves. My mom yelled “Swim, swim, swim”. I tried to swim but it was useless, the water carried me like a piece of paper and soon I couldn’t see my mom and the house. I heard thunder claps from a near distance and when I looked I saw lighting bolts rapidly striking random places but in the middle there was a horror. A kind of hurricane was stirring up the water, it was as large as city and the worse thing was I was being sucked to it.

The waves where getting higher and stronger and at one point I went so high I saw our house very far floating away from the cyclone. After some moments the thunder claps were so loud I covered my ears. In my thoughts I kept thinking of him, the sun. “Did I watch him enough because that might be my last memories of him,” I thought to myself. Instantly I heard a sound that felt like a bomb. The electricity rippled thought my veins like a thousand spears launched at me. The wind of the cyclone was starting to lift me off the water. My body felt limb and I was unable to move my body. I saw schools of fishes lifted out of the water and into the horrific cyclone. I felt dizzy and went to sleep.

I woke up a bit and felt unable to breath, I felt light as the wind harshly carried me then I drifted off to sleep. I dreamt again but this time I was sitting on top of a mountain starring at the sun, I was smiling at his brilliance, the warmth brought to me felt like a comfort of a thousand blankets on a freezing winter. In my dream the sun talked to me, he said “why are you sitting here, instead of fighting for this moment, you and I both know you haven’t had this moment enough, keep hoping and you shall see me shining down on you once more”. His words reminded me of eternity, the feeling of being a living being, the power of belief and the strength manifested by faith. I had to see the gentle eternal sun one more time, just one more time.

I woke up and I was high in the air raising, the wind was no longer holding on to me and my body was free. I opened my eyes and looked down and screamed loudly, I was in the sky alright but I was falling into the eye of this gigantic cyclone. I looked at the horizon were the ocean water ended and saw the beautiful sight of the sun rising from the water. He was eternal and I could feel the strength in me all return as the moment was interrupted by the wall of the cyclone moving upward and covering my sides as I fall down back into the water. I looked down and saw the dark cold water enlarge then I looked up and saw the sky shrink into a tiny ring as everything began to go dark but this time it was different, I was smiling.
 In a few moments I was under water holding my breath, the water was unstable and spinning the cyclone. Thunders and lightning were still raging. I swim nice and slow and calm my soul. In felt as if I was connected to nature, hours and hours I just float on the twisting water. I saw little bit of sun rays penetrating through the walls of the hurricane. The twisting was still as strong as before but more and more rays passed through the walls as they draw out lines through the misty air in the eye of the cyclone. The speed of the winds in the cyclone started to slow down. Within a few hours the noon sun was high and I could see the same beach from my dreams on the far end and I swam to it.

As I appeared on the horizon, there were few people on the beach. Some life guards came and rescue me from the water, they were all amazed as if they knew I survived a hurricane in the water. I asked them what happened to my family and what happened to me, they said “Your parents were worried about you; they will come and pick you up soon. You were swimming in the beach and people are suspecting you went too far and came face to face with the hurricane. The beach was full yesterday, but when we evacuated everyone you were already gone.” I was so confused and so I asked “where do I live?” The life guard replied, “Not far from here, down town on a private estate.” Then I saw my little sister holding a picture on her hand and said “here is your favourite picture, I painted it for you remember.” I grabbed the picture and looked at it; it was the painting of the village I thought I live in with the mountains around it and the sun high in the sky and also a title stating “The gentle eternal sun.”

Fictional Short Story
Written by Nemaangani Dakalo Credence