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    Too Wicked for Hell: A Tale From Anywhere, #4
    Too Wicked for Hell: A Tale From Anywhere, #4
    Too Wicked for Hell: A Tale From Anywhere, #4
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    Too Wicked for Hell: A Tale From Anywhere, #4

    By Richard Hennerley

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    A tale about bad people NOT getting away with it!

    "Dear The Politician...Congratulations on your recent 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."

    Once upon a time… there was a wicked politician (is there any other sort?) who, unlike most of his kind, did NOT escape justice for his crimes...

    In this Tale from Anywhere, an evil politician is executed for war crimes and finds himself in Hell. This seemingly normal event causes chaos to break out in Heaven as a furious Devil demands a meeting with God. He wants The Politician out of his infernal domain because The Politician is not suffering the Torments of Hell but 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?

    Oh, and were God and the Devil really once friends and partners?

    Editorial praise for 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!"  - VINE VOICE


    "This is the most spiritually and intellectually worthwhile and inspiring read I have encountered in a very long time ever since my days as a theological studies student. To me it is a humanist masterpiece on par with my favorite classists such as Faulkner, Lawrence and Bellow. It subverts conventional morals and doctrines while anchoring the plot development and the characters upon what I would call authentic virtues, Intuitive Knowledge and Intuitive Truth. Hennerley speaks Truth in this world of lies that shackle us from birth and asphyxiate us into death, all the while conspiring against our very vitality of the spirit. I cannot wait to read more similar stories from Hennerley! Thank you Hennerley for shining a beacon of light amidst such darkness we live under."  - US REVIEWS

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRichard Hennerley
    Release dateMar 16, 2020
    ISBN9781393315155
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      Too Wicked for Hell - Richard Hennerley

      This tale is taken from my book 'A Curious Book (Dark)'

      First Published in 2020 Copyright © 2020 Richard Hennerley. All rights reserved. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and should not be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For more information e-mail all enquiries to reallyreallynovel@gmail.com

      Too Wicked For Hell

      Part 1. Execution

      Once upon a time in the land of Anywhere, in a world long since forgotten, in the fine and prosperous city of Anyplace, and in the land all around, there was, for a short and happy time, a kind of Golden Age. If you’re already a student of Anywhere you’ll know that this Golden age came about after Generations Of Struggle against Social Injustice and two Catastrophic And Immensely Bloody Wars with the nearby land of Anotherplace.

      During this Golden Age, the grip of the Greedy One Percent that had controlled, and abused, society for centuries was finally broken. Education, housing and healthcare were considered to be rights for all, progressive and redistributive taxes were introduced and some members of the rapist Greedy One Percent were even made to Pay The Price for their self-serving criminality.

      One such character was The Politician. You see, it had become obvious to the Ordinary Folk (for during the Golden Age the Means Of Communication actually investigated and reported on issues rather than being a conduit for lies and propaganda) that the two wars with Anotherplace, that had cost so many lives, had not been about ‘democracy’ or ‘freedom’ but about The Greedy One Percent’s desire to destroy Independent Sovereign Nations in order to Plunder their Resources.

      For his part in so enthusiastically enabling the second war with Anotherplace (at the behest of his Greedy One Percent owners), The Politician was put on trial for Spreading Malicious Lies, Demonising The Innocent To Justify Killing Them, Starting An Illegal War and Sundry War Crimes. There was much rejoicing amongst the Ordinary Folk when The Politician was Found Guilty Of All Charges and sentenced to death by hanging.

      And so it was that The Politician’s corrupt, self-serving and immensely destructive life was extinguished at the end of a rope. And as the body swung lifelessly in the air, its soul exited the earthly remains. Upon which event, highly specialised computer systems somewhere in a far off, dusty corner of Heaven (at the least those are the best terms I can think to describe what happened, for the mechanics of Heavenly Bureaucracy are beyond the whit and ken of mere mortals) sprang automatically into action. The celestial and spiritual equivalent of bytes and megabytes were crunched, reams and reams of data analysed in a flash. A life was balanced, weighed, judged and a passport was issued for The Politician – a passport straight to Hell:

      Dear The Politician,

      Congratulations on your recent death and thank you for your interest in joining God and his Angelic Cohort in Heaven.

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