Welcome To Hell: It's not what you think.

by Charles Scott

If you asked an ancient Roman about what a lake of fire meant to them, chances are you’d hear them say that it meant where a society throws its refuse. At the time, the vast majority of trash was safely, if not pleasantly, burned away. Those with the job of tending that fire might mention danger, but not malice. The entire purpose of their lake of fire was for something to be thrown away and forgotten as it turned to ash to be scattered on the wind.
Now, imagine someone took that idea, but threw conscious people into the fire. Next, imagine that someone then bid that the burning should last forever, such that those that were tossed into the flame would never stop suffering from the flames. What would you say about the kind of person who would come up with such an idea? What I felt, at the time, was betrayed.
That was a long time ago, though. At the point of this story’s beginning, I stood at the shore of The Lake. Dark clouds above, a swirling and agitating mass of oranges and reds below, the streaks of yellow, red, and the rare blue. If you didn’t know that the forces of heaven were throwing conscious souls into the Lake, you might call it beautiful.

141 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 1, 2017