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The devil on your shoulder has a name. He finds ways to bend your will and forces you to discover the monster that has been inside of you all along.

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“So, the transient is a decoy and the house…”
“Is a trap, yes.”
Mikey thought this over for a moment and shrugged. “Then f*ck it. Let’s go get trapped.”

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My fundamental issue is with the actual logic of the events surrounding the so-called original sin. See, I’m of the opinion that Eve didn’t commit the original sin and that the concept itself is flawed.

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Several years ago there was a site named Hell.com and it had a flashy front end that was intentionally creepy. On a particularly slow afternoon in 2005, I got bored and decided to poke around the site to see if I could find anything interesting.

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I was no nearer a decision than when I first set out from our apartment.

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Western Civilization has a long history of fearing the devil and sometimes even worshipping him. Either way, it almost never ends well.

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The master, the joker, the perpetrator and the fool. The sly profit, accomplished antagonist and the riddler of glum and gloom.

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The mirror.

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At this point, I’ve worked in my school’s financial aid office for about ten months or so, and I can already say I’ve already received a lifetime’s worth of insults.

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I watched myself dissolve, becoming permanently incorporated into something else, forgetting what I was, with these brand new cells.