I don’t want to give this away before it’s ready to see the light of day as a finished product, but I was ruminating on false friends of mine and I realized the personae they used with me are going to be highly useful in creating characters which will wind up in Hell, brought there by Mephistopheles. This will be a series.
As part of the research for this work I’ll be rereading Faust, but I’m having a ball thinking of how cathartic it will be to take, say, a narcissist who virtue signals as a hobby and would often bend my ear about suicidal ideation (lying about her own issues with it and rather artlessly attempting to get me to ideate, myself) and put this person into the sort of situation she deserves- she is whipped each time she tells a lie, and then has to address a crowd about suicidal ideation, then have a conversation with me where she has to be complimentary- and mean the lies she has previously acted out to my face.
It’s not all about her, there are plenty of bad actors to choose from and they’ll all be reunited, as I am sure they will be pleased to hear given how often they communicate via “secret” means, in Hell.
Never piss off a writer.
The diary of mephistopheles 