Unholy Alliances: A Divine Convergence of Love, Power, and Apocalypse Xiu and I were lying in Their rumpled bed, Divine Mark's passion cooling inside me and Divine Mary's passion covering Xiu's face, when He proclaimed the First Commandment of the Theocracy: “You shall not make Pacts with Demons.” I wrote furiously on a notepad, then She gave the Second Commandment: “You shall place no Gods before us, for they are false.” –The Gospel of April 41:51-52 Friday, November 8th, 2013 – Mark Glassner – Tacoma, WA The door to the Matmown clanged shut. It was cold in the room, the metal walls and floor icy to the touch. A table – cheap, the kind that could fold up and you'd see in a hotel's convention hall – sat in the center. I sat at the head, and Mary sat across from me. All the sluts: Alison, Desiree, Violet, April, Jessica, Lillian, Xiu, and Korina, along with Willow, Sam, and Candy, took their seats. The people I most trusted. My wife, our sluts, our doctor, and our Vizier and her assistant. My family. We were a strange group, but I loved them all, though I loved one far more than the others. There was no electricity inside the Matmown, there could be no holes in the walls to run a wire. It would break the containment. The only opening was the door, designed to seal shut and be impregnable from the outside. Sam thought of everything: floor lamps, enchanted to glow without power, stood in the room's corners; space heaters struggled to lessen the chill; and the chairs had built in seat warmers. I don't understand how she does it, her explanations always went over my head. “Okay Mary, what have you been holding back?” I asked my wife, eager to finally find out her big secret. The last six weeks had been almost unbearable at times. Mary took a deep breath. “Mark, we have started something terrible.” Terrible? I knew Mary had some guilt over the way we treated people in the beginning. But terrible was a little much. “What do you mean?” “Lucifer and the other demons are trapped in the Abyss, but their prison is weakening. Because of us. …but everything was about to change
