In a wickedly fun bit of perspective taking, Repossessed shares the story of Kiriel, one of the worker demons in Hell who decides to take a vacation from work and spend time in the body of a teenage boy named Shaun. Jenkins uses this discontented minor demon to examine the very human notion of finding one's own place in the universe. While the results of Kiriel's experiments are often hilarious (he develops a passion for ketchup in packets) this is definitely humor with an edge. So once he is safely ensconced in Shaun's body, Kiriel sets out to experience as many human emotions, sensations and sins as possible before some-being in authority notices that he's gone missing. Kiriel is a fallen angel precisely because he is incurably curious, and because he can take nothing on faith. Under-appreciated, as he sees it, and completely fed up, Kiriel opts for an unapproved vacation he steps into the body of American teenager Shaun Simmons milliseconds before Shaun is due to become grist for the wheels of a speeding cement mixer. I could have made my own, but I wasn't in an artistic frame of mind." After interminable eons of making the afterlives of the damned just that little bit more miserable, fallen angel (he does not care for the term demon) Kiriel is finding his job unrewarding, dull even. "Tormenting the damned - it practically does itself, no lie." - Kiriel
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