The demon of this story carries out an exquisite torture of his victim. At the end, we do discover the victim’s fate, though I wondered what became of the demon. Time travel? I haven’t heard Gaiman talk of this story, but I like to think of it in that way because of the opening and closing quotes.
“Time is fluid here,” he told the new arrival.

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  1. “Other People” by Neil Gaiman, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October/November 2001.
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