Hell Found Me (Short Story)

By Matthew Holley

A father sells his soul to save his son but when the devil returns to collect his debt, the father refuses to give up his soul thus he is cursed until the devil gets what is rightfully his.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Matthew Holley
• Release date: May 21, 2011
• ISBN: 9781458075901

Matthew Holley

I live in Englewood, Florida and own a construction business.I'm 42 and just starting to write. I love it! I write for the love of expressing my thoughts and ideas and for the escapism as I enter my make-believe worlds where anything can happen and nothing is out of reach but the limits of my imagination.

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HELL FOUND ME

By Matthew Holley

Smashwords Edition Copyright 2011

Hell found me. In desperation, feeling like I had nowhere else to turn, I invited hell to help. The price I was asked to pay for hell’s miracle was too much for me. I tried to run but it was like trying to run from my own shadow. This is my strange yet true story.

My name is Jake Conrad. A few years ago, I found myself sitting on a red, cushioned bench of a confessional booth at St. Mary’s Cathedral. I was bent over with both elbows on my knees and my face in my hands desperately looking for answers from Father Mathis who was in the next booth. Our only way of communicating with one another was through a veil-covered square opening joining both booths. It had been awhile since I had seen the inside of a confessional booth… since I was a teenager. Now, a man of thirty was back in the come-clean-of-all-your-sins booth. I remember, at the time, sitting on that bench, I felt well over one hundred from all the years of running from my demons.

What do you mean that hell has found you? Father Mathis asked in a very monotone voice. He