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Reminisce
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 22 2026
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Azozel has possessed emperors, warlords, poisoners, and one pope, twice. He conducted the burning of Rome. He whispered at the ear of Genghis Khan. He is, by his own engraved commendation, the finest tempter of his generation.
He is currently possessing Nigel Stample of 14 Berrycroft Close, a council worker who has eaten the same cheese sandwich every working day since 1998, arrives forty minutes early for the bus in case of lambs, and maintains a ranked biscuit hierarchy in the back of a meter-readings notebook.
Nigel is the most boringest human who has ever lived. Azozel's words. He stands by the grammar.
Two years into a punishment posting with no exit clause, the demon has a problem: Nigel cannot be corrupted. Whisper greed into the man and it comes out as a donation to the guide dogs. Whisper arson and he unplugs a toaster. There is no handle on his soul, no seam, no keyhole - and a demon with nothing to corrupt is left with nothing to do but remember.
But the good old days, taken down off the shelf and actually examined, keep coming back smaller. The fire of Rome turns out to have been a cat. The Mongol horde ran on paperwork. And somewhere between a fire drill, a carvery, a power cut, and a librarian named Deirdre who notices everything and mentions nothing, the finest tempter of his generation begins to suspect he has spent six thousand years on the wrong side of the counter.
Changing your stripes should be the hard part. It isn't. The hard part is that Nigel Stample does not withhold on forms - spoken or otherwise - and honesty, at the worst possible moment, in front of a thorough vicar with a diocesan handbook, can undo an eternity of paperwork.
A comic horror about demons, biscuits, bureaucracy, and the terrifying power of a genuinely nice man. For readers of Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams - and anyone who has ever lost something important to a diary clash.
You're going to die soon, by the way. But you could finish this book first.
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