Letters From Satan

Dear Charles,

I feel we have become informal over the years, even though you and I have never spoken. We must meet. I have had plans to come see you for quite sometime, but my many requests have been denied. I know why you don't want to see me, and it's all right to be afraid. We do need to sit down and iron out our problems. You see, you've been talking to too many people about me. I wish that you would show some restraint when using my name.

Another matter before us is: you seem to think that I will interject on your behalf when the time comes. You don't seem to understand that I like you where you are. You cause too many problems for me elsewhere. You make me look foolish, and for this I am deeply ashamed of you. In the past, you have tried to make yourself a part of my affairs. You can never be a part of what I am. Your manipulation of people's minds was quite inventive, but you slipped. You made an ass of yourself by contradicting your own philosophies. Kids would not follow you today.

The truth is something you hold very dear, but you haven't learned to be honest with yourself. The only way you made these "children" believe you is through drugged dementia. They don't believe you now, do they? They resent you, Charles. Much like they resented their parents when you dragged them into your "family". They see your contradictions. They looked for something more than what life had already shown them, but all you gave them were illusions of what life could be. You lied to them because that was all you had the power to do. That is all the power you have now, but now you only have one follower to lie to.

We must also talk about your definition of evil. You have told certain members of the media that you are, in fact, evil. So, that's what you think you are? You are no more evil than a stubbed toe or a hangnail. Look at it from my point of view. You kept a city on edge for about a week. In my eyes, a week is a fraction of a second. Charles, look at the big picture. Even an idiot like DeSalvo kept Boston terrified for longer than you. Let's face it, evil... you are not.

I am coming to discuss these issues with you. Please, do not deny my request this time. I will see you soon.

Sincerely,
L. Morningstar

Dear Rev. Phelps,
It is so nice to see someone working for the greater good of this country. I never thought a man who could devote himself to God could be so easily taught to hate, but I was wrong. You have become one of my favorite people to correspond with. Your literature, though, is lacking the true vision you have. I know deep inside you want all homosexuals dead.

I have been asking myself why you do what you do? I feel very responsible for what made you. I was there the night you started to hate. It truly was a horrible sight. You cried for hours and hours. I was so glad to see you finally go to sleep after what had happened. I was wondering if you still remembered that night? Sorry if I brought up a bad memory, but it was such a fulfilling moment for me that I can't help myself sometimes.

The storms were coming in from the northwest. You sat in the smallest chair in the room. That was your favorite chair. Your mother was out, and your father wasn't home yet. Your uncle was there to make sure you were all right. Oh, did he make sure you were all right.

You can remember him forcing you to the ground and raping you, can't you? The only bad thing about this memory is how much you liked it. You couldn't stop yourself. Your father walked in and saw. He knew how much you liked it. He punished you for years, and you began to hate. You couldn't just stop with the hate you felt toward your father. Instead, you had to show your hate to the world. Your no better than the flamboyant little queer. You must show yourself off to the world.

I just wanted to write, and thank you for all your hard work. Please, keep it up.

Your Biggest Fan,
Mr. L. Morningstar

To whom it may concern:
I very rarely choose to voice my true opinions anymore. I let people make their own decisions and live with the consequences of those decisions. Of course, when these decisions turn out badly... I get blamed. I get blamed when anything turns out badly. No one looks toward heaven and says, "Oh, God made me do it." It's always my ass in the hot seat.

You all get the same chance. Flip a coin. Life is fifty-fifty. I reclaim half of you anyway, regardless. The sins were put there merely as an outline. Look at pride, for instance. Sometimes, it's a wonderful thing to be proud. You've accomplished a goal that you most likely never thought you would, and that's why you're proud. That's also where you went wrong. You're greatest accomplishment should humble you to the fact that you can do better. Thus, no pride involved. Thus, no sin, etcetera and so on. My favorite of the sins is lust. If you've never felt lust... too bad for you. Of course, lust is the majority of my repossessions. Damned mortals, you can't resist it can you? I admit, lust was the great equalizer. Without it, you'd all get to go to heaven. God had to give me something.

Lust, god it's a beautiful word. A little word that describes the strongest feeling in the world. I know, some of you are reading this thinking love. How do you think you get there? If it weren't for animal lust there would be no such thing. Well, in some cases it's just a good bartender, but that's another point altogether. Come to think of it, lust is what got you to where you are now. Look at what your lust has cost you. All you have to do is look around you. Lust is the beautiful woman with the bitchy attitude, lust is the rohypnol slipped into the woman's drink by the date rapist, and lust is the nightmares she has for the rest of her life not knowing if she consented or not.

Sweet Dreams,
Dr. Beelzebub

An open letter to sluts:
I can feel the first time you touched it. How your hand was like silk running up and down the shaft. You were amazed at how big it was, and how you thought it would never fit. You could feel the excitement in his low moans. Your body started to tingle as his moaning got more and more frantic. I can hear your inaudible squeal as he came all over your hand.

The next week was incredible. He told all his friends, and you were overwhelmed with dates. With every step closer to going all the way, your excitement reached new peaks. I can feel the confusion of your first orgasm. Did you push his hands away from your crotch because you couldn't take it, or hold his fingers inside you so he could feel your muscles spasm?

I'm sure you were scared that first night. You had heard all the stories about how much it hurt, and how you wouldn't enjoy it. What was there to enjoy? You barely had time to know whether you enjoyed it or not, or whether or not it hurt. I can feel the awkward moment when he rolls off of you, and both of you wonder what to say. Did you make it home before curfew that night?

Now, you search. You want to feel the hands from so many men ago. You want to feel the tingle throughout your body that you haven't felt since. Almost every man looks like a possibility, but none of them can give you back that feeling. Drugs and drinking bring on new feelings, but they fall short of perfection.

Never fear, that feeling is just around the corner.

Stay optimistic,
Prince Lucifer Morningstar

To whom it may concern:
I stand at the end of your bed and masturbate as I watch you fuck. Your heart racing, your blood pumping through your body, and your bodies thrusting in unison. No one would give up sex, no matter what the consequences. There are no longer thoughts of procreation, only thoughts of ejaculation. There's no disease, operation, drug, or act of God that can change this.

Nude pictures of mothers and daughters are all over every fourteen year-old's computer screen, pornography is a billion dollar business, and there are more adulterers than Christians. It's beautiful to see that a naked person can sell anything, and no one cares when a six year-old boy finds his father's hidden stash of Playboys. Sex has become culture.

Like junkies, everyone looks for that miracle fix. It feels so good, it's hard to resist. Some people can't hide the obsession, people call them addicts. How hypocritical is that? No matter how well it's hidden, everyone wants sex and everyone thinks about when they'll have it next. There's not a person alive who doesn't know how long it's been since the last time they had sex, or who their best lover was. Everyone has the feelings, odors, and sounds of their best sexual experience stored in the back of their head, ready to come forward at any time. And for this, I can't thank you enough.

Thanks again,
The Angel Morningstar

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