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The Hottest Vacation Around

October 23, 2015
By Anonymous

Oh God, you won't believe what the Devil is up to. He is telling everyone to join his party, to have a good vacation in Hell! He’s sayin’ that it’s the new Bahamas! But better!  Don’t people know that Hell is for the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars--their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur?   But the Devil is making it look like a fun party and everyone is having fun. He is trying to trick people to come to Hell with TV reality shows and commercials and billboards. He’s dropping flyers from planes and renting space on the sides of city buses! The motto about Hell used to be: if you’re going through Hell, KEEP ON GOING!!!  But now his ad line is “go to Heaven for the climate… go to Hell for the company.” and surrounding himself with all kinds of interesting beautiful people- at parties, laying out in the hot sun reading trashy novels, cooking marshmallows over open sulphur pits. And, you know what, God? It’s working! People are booking trips like crazy! I’m gonna head down there and take a look. I’ll tell you if you need to do anything.  You know, God, with great power comes great responsibility. (later that day…) It’s packed!!! But no one’s having a good time. Everyone is in line trying to get their money back, trying to get on the quickest train home.  And, pardon my French, they’re having a hell of a time getting anywhere!  There’s terrible elevator music. “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” was playing when I was watching... and no one’s actually working the lines, so the lines are getting longer and longer. And even though is says that there’s cookies to eat while you wait, the cookies are all burnt and filled with bugs and hot peppers! People can’t even eat them. One guy asked for a glass of ice water. The Devil looked at him and said, “There’s no ice water here! Where do you think you are?” “But I’m so thirsty and I really want ice water!!”  “You can’t always get what you want…” I heard him say the same thing to a lady asking about a swimming pool she could use. You have to do something, God! I don’t think the Devil is going to let them go and they are NOT having a good time.   (later that day...) I guess you showed him! I guess he’s not gonna be luring people down there with any fancy tricks. I guess people are going to have to get there the old fashioned way… earn it.  THE END


 


The author's comments:

We'd been studying quotes in my English class and for our final activity, our teacher had us choose 5 famous quotes that most people had heard of.  After we choose our quotes, we had to weave them into a short story. We could use them any way we wanted- not necessarily the way the original speaker did. My teacher thought my story was really good and though I should submit it to you. A teacher in my school gets your magazine and we read stories out of it sometimes.


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