Please Hold For Oblivion

Urban Fantasy – Humorous Fantasy – Workplace Satire

Amy Black has spent six years in Hell.

Not the fiery, screaming kind.

The corporate kind.

At Avernus Customer Solutions, Amy is a Tier-2 technical support representative trapped inside an endless call center where demons, necromancers, and dark lords call for help with malfunctioning cursed hardware. Every second is measured. Every emotion is monitored. And every employee wears a Neural-Dampener designed to turn exhaustion, anger, and despair into clean corporate energy.

Then a call comes in from an unmapped realm.

The caller is Malakor, the terrifying Dark Lord of the Dread Wastes—and his ancient Obsidian Core is malfunctioning.

Amy does what she does best: she troubleshoots it.

But when she discovers that Avernus isn't merely exploiting its employees—it is secretly siphoning entire realms for profit—Amy realizes the system she has spent years surviving is built to consume everything that feels.

So she takes off her patch.

And starts breaking the rules.

With a reluctant Dark Lord on the other end of a forbidden support line, a terrified coworker willing to become an unlikely rebel, and a corporate bureaucracy that can be weaponized against itself, Amy must find a way to stop Project Oblivion before Avernus erases the Dread Wastes—and everyone trapped inside its machinery.

Because sometimes the most dangerous weapon in Hell isn't magic.

It's an employee who has finally read the handbook.

A darkly funny urban fantasy about corporate burnout, forbidden connection, magical tech support, workplace rebellion, and finding love after years of feeling nothing.

If you've ever dreamed of quitting your soul-crushing job, Please Hold For Oblivion is your exit queue.