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The Bargain
The demon passed up through the table demanding his yearly
sacrifice. I was expecting him, of course, as per the terms of our agreement. One
tenth of my soul each year, paid in ten equal installments in exchange for a
lifetime of happiness with my then-estranged son. My son came to the house the very night I made the deal and we worked everything out. I promised to be a better parent than I had been when he was young. He promised to give me that chance. It was all I wanted.
My boy died in a crash two weeks later. I’d raged at the demon for having the gall to come for his pay at the end of the first year, but he only said, “Our bargain was for a lifetime,
you didn't say whose.”
Each year he came to take what I had promised and
each year he journeyed back to hell with a little more of my essence.
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