Hell Is the Absence of God; first appeared in Starlight 3, 2001.
Stories of Your Life and Others (2002)
“Hell […] is the absence of God and the presence of Time.”
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Glen Duncan
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I, Lucifer
Source: I, Lucifer
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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