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In A Stall-Like Room Of The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse
As could be elaborated from the previous thought provoking question, the journey these people took was actually a similar hallucination of the four. In a stall-like room of a late 1920’s mental asylum, this story ends in a twist, revealing that this narrative of four men on a trip to hell and back for things they wish they could do (I.E. Suicide, murder, general crimes against humanity and the public, etc.) and becoming the embodiment of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. Each man has a hallucination, however, the entire story isn’t just prompted by painful boredom and silence between roommates. As the three with their stories come to a close, it is shown that they were actually using Hell as a metaphor to represent how poorly treated they

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