Friday Fictioneers – The Devil’s Chord

~ Neil MacDonald
PHOTO PROMPT © Yvette Prior

My children, listen well. Walking in the hills, I heard a wondrous sound proceeding from a cloud. There I saw a black servant playing a viola, and his recital was superior to all the King’s musicians. I tell you, that was the Devil himself.

The creation is perfect, harmonious, divine. When we sing in praise of God, we recreate the harmony of the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth—life as before the Fall. But Satan inserts himself into the gap between one note and the next. Beware the tritone—it is the Devil’s music.

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Friday fictioneers is a weekly challenge set by Rochelle Wisoff Fields to write a 100-word story in response to a photo prompt. You can find other stories here

30 thoughts on “Friday Fictioneers – The Devil’s Chord”

      1. If white for Heaven and black for Hell isn’t comfortable for some people, Biblical imagery is fairly clear that light represents goodness and God and darkness represents evil and the Devil. Not sure why that’s hard to grasp.

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