Writing Prompt

“Holy shit, mom?!”...

I open the book

and cast the spell

to summon the devil

so I can have a conversation

but upon summoning

I see a cloud of smoke

why are they there

Are they the devil?

How could you be so evil

and still, be my friend...

Great heavens,

I summoned you?

How would someone like me

Cross paths with something so fowl?...

This is it, this is the moment Henry has been working towards all year. The moment he finally summons the devil, the one and only ruler of hell. He won’t admit it but Henry has wanted to meet this fabled creature since he was in middle school. The day he learned that people go to hell to be punished by him. Young Henry had thought to himself, why not bring the devil here so he could watch his foes...

The first time I stepped in front of the mirror to find the Devil, I couldn’t believe my own eyes. He dresses like me— walks like me—talks like me. I mean, he is the spitting image of the white skinned and red-brown haired Jesus. The one with the white robe and the blue sash that little kids learn to associate with Jesus at vacation bible school and Sunday services.

And even if I can quote from b...

The candles dripped their wax onto the basement floor. The flames being the only thing illuminating our agape mouths, and the furrowed brow of our new companion. His eyes glared at the three of us, like a cat that just had its’ tail pulled. He was angry, and we couldn’t believe what we were seeing.

His red skin and yellow eyes were the only thing cliché devil-like about him. He stood three feet t...

My stomach twists. 'Please tell me you're joking.'

The devil smiles languidly, waving a lazy hand over his - my brother's face.

He's wearing my brother's face.

The devil sighs. 'I cannot. This is, I suppose, a camouflage. My true form would boil your eyeballs. Thus, I am bound to appear as someone you detest.'

'But I don't detest my brother,' I reply, 'I love him more than anything. I died t...

“Aw hell, not again,” was not the words Pam expected to hear. To be honest, Pam was not sure what she thought would happen when she finished the chanting. The website online outlined how to set up the ritual. How to draw the containment circle, what herbs were needed, the right amount of blood, and the words to summon a devil were all laid out in detail. It even listed substitutions for the hard t...

“Audi dewy dumbella”

“Why does that sound like the chant from child’s play? Do you even know what you’re doing”

“Ha I was just kidding, can you google it again for me?”

Maggie rolled her eyes. She took out her iphone allowing it to futuristically scan the features of her face until it unlocked with a click. She proceeded to google.

“How do you spell summoning? Never mind I got it.”

...

I was with my friends, we were doing ritual games. It was 3:00am. We thought they were fake. We had decided that the next one would be a game that supposedly summonend the devil.

We started by making sure the room was dark, only lit by 6 small ruby red candles. Then we put a mirror with the number six written on it with a red marker. We then said the ritual chant 6 times.

We waited fo...