[WP] The Occupation of Heaven and Hell

I wrote this short story for the writing prompt "[WP] The Occupation of Heaven and Hell"

Prompt: "Armageddon has come and gone, but to the surprise of both angels and demons humanity decisively crushes its supernatural enemies and invades and occupies their respective realms."

The Story

It's nearly 5, but I gotta get these reports done He thought to himself as he typed.

His long nails kept catching on the keyboard, double typing letters, slowly building his frustration.

click clickety-click click

Okay, so I've finished that one.

He looks over at the pile of papers still to put into the spreadsheet and sighs.

Gonna be working late tonight

Minutes pass, then an hour, then two...

Finally nearly there, just gotta save he says to himself.

A few clicks and an hourglass appears as the computer saves. Minutes pass and the hourglass is still turning. Then it stops.

He waggles the mouse. Nothing on the screen moves

"no, no! NO NO!!!"

He stares at the frozen screen, incredulity giving way to anger.

Quickly standing he grabs the screen " DO NOT DEFY ME, I AM LUCIFER, THE FALLEN ONE, GIVE ME MY DATA BACK, BILL GATES I WILL DESTROY THEE "

He picks up the keyboard in his large, deeply veined, red hands and breaks it over the screen.

Moments pass and the door to the office opens, and in steps a man in a suit, with long golden hair, and wings. "Woah, Lucy, what's wrong buddy? I was just heading home."

Lucifer sighs and sits down again. "I spent four hours inputting the latest sign ups into a spreadsheet, and the computer crashed. Unbelievable. I always thought I was the ultimate evil. I tortured people for eternity, but here I am, three years after the apocalypse, working in a HUMAN company. Adding data to a spreadsheet is by far the cruellest torture possible, if not purely because I'm the one forcing myself to do it."

He sighs again and rubs his eyes with one hand.

The angel pats his horns, "I know it sucks but, hey don't sweat it buddy, these things happen. We under estimated the humans, and now we're here. I don't think anybody guess that in the End of Days the humans were going take on both heaven and Hell." he shrugged, his wings extending slightly as he did so. "Hell, we wouldn't even be friends right now if we hadn't ended up hiding in that semi-dimension together from the human inquisitors. Hell, I wouldn't even be allowed to use to the word Hell. Maybe things are better this way. Things just happen. Right now, Friday is happening, Margarita time? " he waggles his golden eyebrows as he quirks a smile.

Lucifer looks down his his broken keyboard, and flicks the screen off button.

"Yeah okay. "

--- © Copyright Mark Langridge