to fulfill a contract, writer praises the devil

to fulfill a contract, writer praises the devil

fiction
Edward w Pritchard

The Devil is earthbound and cannot move through space and time like other deities so he enjoys sitting alone watching the stars and planets at night. As he sits gazing at the night sky when everyone else is asleep, the Devil is attuned to the sounds of nature; the Devil will sit for hours and listen to the chirp of crickets, and the indistinguishable soft sounds of the night. When the birds start to wake about an hour before dawn the Devil stands wearily and with much crunching of his brittle bones  begins a long repetitive lowly productive day.

Often the Devil is morose from reminiscing about all that has passed on, for time is simultaneous to him, now, later and before are often one. As the Devil walks about he remembers battles with settlers and Indians where a convenience store now serves energy drinks and lottery tickets or a small barren hill where twenty free Black former slaves once banded together to sing and survive. When he looks skyward the Devil mourns lost flocks of vanished birds and extinct butterflies.

The Devil's head is full to overflow with ten billion facts that often cloud understanding. Clouds form patterns that intrigue the Devil as he studies the Sky.
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