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___She looks to her right.

___-Nothing...-

___She looks to her left.

___-Still, nothing... Is it safe? Can I finally leave this time?-

___The stone steps beneath her tremble and quake, splitting open before her. Her heart sinks. She knows what the gaping fissure before her will bring next...

___"Well, well, my pet, you've made it this far. I'm impressed. I actually thought you might make it only as far as the billion worms, but noo, you just kept on truckin', didn't ya?" came an ironically smooth voice from the fissure. She knew who that voice belonged to. How could she forget?

___"Yeah, I know. I'm quite the catch, aren't I?" she spat back at the Devil. This just wasn't her morning. She was expecting to just get on with her usual chunk of excrutiating torture and then just move on to the next huge chunk of laboring in the mines. But no, the Devil decided he wanted to have a little fun this morning, of all mornings.

___"Hey, now, little trooper! What's with the attitude? Smart mouth like that was what got you landed here, don't you remember?" he asked her. It was a rhetorical question, she knew, but she still had some smart aleck left in her.

___"Oh, was it? I thought it was one of the seven oh so deadly sins. Lust, was it? Wait, I'm thinking it was Gluttony. Hm, I just can't remember! OH YEAH! It was sleeping in that ONE TIME!" she screamed. It was absolutely unfair the way this world worked. If she had known she would die within the next 24 hours, she wouldn't have dared spent her last day in her run-down apartment home. She'd have told that guy at the office who sits by himself and doesn't talk much to anybody else except for her how she really felt...

___"Aw, come on now, Sassy. I know you know that sleeping in that one time can get you here if you don't take care of what needs to be done first. Sloth, silly child, is your sin. Forgot to clean after Fluffy, didn't you?"

___"I didn't know that stupid cat had made a mess in the kitty box," she stammered. She knew this argument was pointless. She'd been stuck in the same unending argument with him for the last few decades. She was pretty much past any hope of gaining any footing against the Devil himself.

___"That's no excuse. Fluffy was your responsibilty. And what did you do to Fluffy? You let him get all filthy, and dirty, and nasty, and ... ugh. Cats... Just saying the word kinda makes you wanna take a steaming hot bath, don't it, Sassy?" the Devil chuckled.

___Sassy crossed her arms and sighed. "Yeah, it does. Kinda. Anyways, did I do good enough? Can I finally get outta here?"

___"Aw, Sassy. You really wanna leave me all alone here with no one but my bunions to talk to? Do you really wanna be gone that badly? Do I make you that miserable?"

___"Well, yeah. It's your job."

___"Ah, she is a quick one!" he joked.

___She snarled. That was just perfect. Perfect! Perfect way to end the morning that should've been spent in bed. Not that a slab of granite is exactly a piece of comfort in any way.

___"Alright now, enough screwing around. You did good today, but you need to do better. You need to be even more selfless if you're gonna expect to get into heaven this time around. Now get a move on. You still got work to - "

___"I KNOW!!" Sassy uncrossed her arms and fell down the fissure, landing neatly in the Devil's outstretched arms. She sighed and looked up at the pitch black sky above her, hoping that this won't be the last time she saw it.

___When the fissure closed itself up above their heads, the Devil stomped a huge, hooved foot down on the earthy ground and they were both instantly dropped deep within the fiery pit, where Sassy could hear the words being shouted out white their torture was being generously handed to them.