Too wicked for...Hell!

by Richard Hennerley

"Dear Sir/Ms.,
Congratulations on your death and thank you for your interest in joining God and his Angelic Cohort in Heaven. Regretfully, I have to inform that on this occasion your application has not been successful. However, alternative accommodation has been found for you in Hell.
We very much hope you enjoy your stay.

Yours Eternally,
The Heavenly Bureaucracy."

After being executed for war crimes and sundry lies and deceptions, a prominent politician from the land of Anywhere is dispatched to Hell - and chaos breaks out in Heaven as a furious Devil demands a meeting with God. He wants the politician out of his infernal domain because, rather than suffering the torments of Hell, this strange, 'too wicked for Hell' individual is enjoying every blood-splattered moment of them!

God agrees to the meeting. But what on Earth (and Heaven) do you do with someone who is too wicked for Hell?

This story is taken 'Another Curious Little Book' (the second book in the Tales from Anywhere series), also available to buy now.

Praise for the Tales From Anywhere
"Brilliant comic technique, and a glorious sense of moral outrage at the current mess in which our country seems mired, combine here to make a unique reading experience. Often laugh-out-loud funny, the real-life characters behind these innocuous fairy tales and fables hit you by surprise, a series of sharp rocks hidden in those snowballs. Amazingly, with all the faux-naievete and children's book elements gleefully displayed here, the writing never becomes twee or condescending. I don't know where this writer's been all his life, but I intend to catch up with him, and keep an eye on where he's headed next...Bravo, Mr. Hennerly! Stay angry, and keep your books coming!" VINE VOICE

21 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 2, 2016

About the author

I am to be found firmly adrift in the land of Anywhere, also known as the Land of Stories, loitering with fictitious intent and words aforethought at the end of a sentence that begins with "Once upon a time...."

I live in England. I have some strange ideas in my head. I struggle with understanding what this world is about: is it really all random? I am blessed with a loving partner and family and three beautiful dogs. I eat, drink, sleep and bleed if you cut me. I am different things to different people at different times. I am capable of great kindness, casual and thoughtless cruelty, amazing wisdom and breathtaking stupidity.

I am chameleon, comedian and caricature (thank you, Mr. Bowie). I can reach for the stars or trawl the gutter. I can love or hate with equal ferocity. I have dark and primeval places in my mind that I fear to visit. I am simultaneously crushed and inspired by my heritage. Some days life leaves me bursting with joy, other days I am breathless with fear. I am a twitching bundle of insecurity and contradiction. I am flawed yet breathtakingly wonderful. I am full of a power, grace and spirituality so intense that I cannot even begin to understand it. I am beautiful. I am human. I am me. I am you.

Reviews

[Hail Hydra! ~Dave Anderson~ · Rating 4 out of 5]

When The Politician was finally restrained and chained between the Archangels, The Devil approached, took a pair of sharp, silver scissors from a pocket in his dreadfully dapper waistcoat and snipped away The Politician’s eyelids, in order that not a single moment of grace, beauty and goodness would go unobserved.