Download or read book Grumpy Old Gods written by Juneta Key and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grumpy Old Gods are back in this second installment of mythical fun. Join us for 13 new tales of deities that are retired, reborn, waning, or AWOL from their assigned posts as they hilariously navigate life, death, and everything in between.

Download or read book Grumpy Old Gods written by Juneta Key and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when gods wane, retire, or just decide they need a change of employment? 13 writers took up the challenge and let their imaginations run wild in this anthology that is nearly-always amusing, somewhat insightful, and completely irreverent as we imagine the gods of yore in retirement: Pan by Vanessa Wells: Gwen Henson is a witch trainee with a nose for trouble; when she gets into something deeper than she and her mentor can deal with, they are forced to contact a cantankerous former god for assistance, only to find that his help comes at a price...but doesn't everything? A Low Key Game Night by Elizabeth Shaffer: Family Game night is always a risky situation when a former god of mischief is involved; add in a son bringing a new mortal girlfriend to meet the godly household and the stakes get a bit more interesting than anyone intended. For Want of a Feather by Andrew Dunlop: When the God in charge of afterlife management goes AWOL, two intrepid (if somewhat dead) souls and a talking cat set off to find him. What they find isn't exactly what they anticipated. Out of Luck by Vanessa Finaighty: Loki, God of Mischief has a history of going too far: when one of his pranks goes wrong, he and the rest of the Gods are out of luck...literally. Rule 34 by Avery Vanderlyle: When the Primal Terror goes AWOL, Demeter is forced to chase him down in order to keep humanity from destroying themselves; unfortunately, he has a new hobby, and it's for mature audiences only. Immanent Domain by Wendy Smyer Yu: When Cara accidentally invokes Coyote after a terrible date, the young woman has to channel her inner trickster so that the bored deity doesn't wreck her life. God of Morning by Elizabeth McCleary: When Morrow, god of morning is informed he is in danger of losing his position to Chaos god of well...chaos, he has to pull himself out of his recent funk and find joy in the morning once more. Zeus Really Needs To Go by Shawn Klimek: Lactose intolerance and a distinct lack of a statute of limitations combine to give the former King of Olympus one very bad day. Breaking the Habit by Ronel Janse von Vuuren: Odin finds that escaping his throne to make mischief at a rest home might be exactly what the doctor ordered. The New Chief Medical Officer by Tom Vetter: Controlled chaos reigns in the Elysian Fields Retirement facility. The new chief medical officer arrives to take charge; but when retired gods are involved, nothing is ever as easy as it seems at first glance. Playing Hooky by Juneta Key: Death's FA is having a heck of day.Harbinger of Doom by Katharina Gerlach: A mortal with a distasteful job finds that he can be more than he ever dreamed, if he simply has the courage to reach out and take what he wants. Whither Athena by Marshall J. Moore: In which Althea Stagg has a client she can't refuse and a missing Goddess who has no intention of returning: caught between two primal beings, what's a demi-goddess detective to do?

Download or read book The Old Gods written by Patrick Logan and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Life and Chaos of a Retired Old God written by Jemma Weir and published by Jemma Weir. This book was released on 2023-04-01 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being retired was supposed to be easy. No drama, no family, no problems. Considering Ernie is a god, he should have known better. In this collection of short stories, Ernie struggles to live a quiet life as Death loses his scythe, a genie wants a holiday, and Ernie’s family keeps dropping in. Then there’s Ragnarok. Because who doesn't need an end-of-the-world event to keep things calm and quiet? But it doesn't stop there. This collection contains a brand new bonus short story where Ernie is asked to mediate a feud between Dragons. With tensions running high, maybe the poker game hadn’t been the best idea. Also included in this collection are a series of flash fiction originally published on my blog. Follow Ernie as he deals with Cupid shooting the wrong person, Wererabbits for April Fools, Santa stuck in the chimney, and what happens to snowmen when the weather changes. The Life and Chaos of a Retired Old God is a collection of humorous short stories where Ernie learns that quiet is the last thing he’s going to get.

Download or read book The Divine Space Gods Trilogy written by Martin Lundqvist and published by Martin Lundqvist. This book was released on with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of dark comedy sci-fi novellas put together into one novel. The Divine Space Gods trilogy is parodying The Divine Zetan Trilogy by the same author. The whole Divine Space Gods trilogy containing Abraham's Follies, Revolution for Dummies, and Rangda's Shenanigans Divine Space Gods 1: Abraham's Follies When God dies, an idiot takes his place! Divine Space Gods 2: Revolution for Dummies Keila is the perfect revolutionary: Lacking things like intelligence, sanity or common sense, She has something far more important: plot armour and the telepathic help of Rangda, the evil space demon! Divine Space Gods 3: Rangda's Shenanigans When the Divine Plan is stupid, humanity's future is at risk.

Download or read book Misunderstood Stories written by Robert Karl Gnuse and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narratives in Genesis 1-11 have been misunderstood in many ways, but they especially have been used to oppress women and African Americans and to present a God of wrath and judgment. This commentary seeks to explain the real message behind those narratives, which is one that speaks of human dignity and equality, that affirms monotheism, that criticizes kings and tyrants, that declares our oneness with the animal realm and nature, and that proclaims a powerful message of divine grace with a deity personally involved in the human world. Humor may also be found in some of these stories. These biblical passages can be best explicated by close reading as well as by knowledge of comparable stories from the ancient Near East and from the classical world, and finally by knowledge of the concomitant social and political values connected with those other myths and narratives.

Download or read book Through The Sunshine written by Deedra Nichole and published by Fae Corps Inc. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten stories focused on light fae. Deedra Nichole - Blood Moon Rising A return to the story from Under the Mists. Can anyone stop Lyria the blood siren's evil reign? The last light faery and an infant will try. KA Masters - Furnace and the Mountain of Hope Furnace, the kobold, and his mate Betta, the mermaid, take on an adventure to save a friend. KT Seto - Into the Mist A mother learns about the dark creatures that wander this world and help the light fae to battle the dark. Luisa Kay Reyes - The Long Lost Maiden of Light A serving girl with a secret past finds that a kind heart has rewards. Michael J Walters - Returning Home Old customs keep the faery magic alive, but are they right? Michael Guzman - The Gift A grieving widow (LGBTQ) faces both a prospective eviction and life without her wife. Her wife's last gift, from beyond the grave, is supposed to help... Does it R​.B​​​​​​. Stormcrow – Gem of Krysvaris (part one) the faeries of Birchwood grove are facing danger... And a prophecy. Rose J. Fairchild - Fairy Dust when the fae are attacking her mortal children, a hob seeks out the tooth faery for help. Serena Mossgraves - Winter Whimsy How was snow made? A whimsical tale about the first snow. Tish MacWebber - Operation Let It Glow A continuation of Tish's story from Under the Mists. The light fae army moves to counter the witch Ruby's plans. Will it be light or dark that wins?

Download or read book Odds And Gods written by Tom Holt and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2009-11-05 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wagner got it wrong. The twilight of the gods isn't that cataclysmic. After all, there's a comfy chair, a warm fire and three meals a day at the Sunnyvoyde Residential Home. Passing the time with Aphrodite, who's still quite sprighty with the aid of her Zimmer frame, isn't heaven - but it's close.

Download or read book The Old Gods Laugh written by Frank Yerby and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Picking Fights with the Gods written by Paul Gilk and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The common understanding of "apocalypse" suggests End Times, Armageddon, and the end of the world. But the Greek word apokalypsis means none of these things. What it does mean is uncovering, disclosing, and revelatory. That "apocalypse" is so widely misunderstood as predestined disaster isn't due to natural evolution in meaning. To penetrate the misuse of apokalypsis is to discover mythic misrepresentation. That is, "apocalypse" doesn't generate End Times but--just the opposite--End Times compels apokalypsis. The actual threat of End Times--explicitly so with weapons of mass destruction and Anthropocene climate change--forces thoughtful people into a search for fundamental causes: Where do these destructive energies originate? Why are we so reluctant to recognize the obvious consequences and resistant to embrace available remedies? Why do we persist in denial and indifference? In these essays, Paul Gilk explores the underlying cultural and religious conventions (both "conservative" and "liberal") that constitute our resistance and refusal. To disclose and uncover those conventions, to dissolve our oblivion, is to awaken to apokalypsis and to realize the depth of our captivity within prevailing mythology, both religious and civilizational. If End Times is the disease, apokalypsis is the cure.

Download or read book Divine Space Gods Abraham s Follies written by Martin Lundqvist and published by Martin Lundqvist. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far enough in the future for anything to be conceivable, the ridiculously wealthy and dementia-ridden villain Abraham Goldstein, is defrauded by a shrewd scientist Jack Brown into funding an implausible "secret" project to travel to heaven and meet God! Against all logic the machine end up working and Abraham finds out that the god is dead, and that Yahweh in his suicide letter was kind enough to leave the schematics for the mind control chip he used to convince Bronze Age humans that he was a god. Having these schematics Abraham sets his mind for a new project To create an artificial Bronze Age world where he can be God over it's inhabitants. Along the way he faces many highly amusing scenarios such as problem with the henchmen union, unfortunate calendar mistakes, malfunctioning orbital super weapons etc. Abraham keeps fucking up thing due to his dementia, villainy, incompetent henchmen, and general stupidity until a mentally ill woman shows up out of nowhere and puts and end to Abraham's follies!

Download or read book In Memory of the Grumpy Old Man written by B. Michael Moro and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grumpy Old Man is, in a sense, a very real person. There comes a point in time when one gets tired of hearing people going off half cock about issues they didn't take the time to research nor put any intelligent thought into them. What the Grumpy Old Man is about is conveying a sensible point of view about the local, national, and world issues that mostly everyone seems so concerned about. In a sense, it is a common-sense look at history and why the world is the way it is and what it would take to change it for the better.

Download or read book The Many Faces of God written by Walter Prucnel and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God looked at the earth with despair. He knew the future of earth was dismal; it was prone to the pollutions created by man. Worse yet, people in many countries were killing others for their different religious beliefs. Gone was the day of the cross and bow when men fought each other face to face. Now many countries were making weapons that could travel great distances to kill millions. This both saddened and angered Him and He knew something had to be done. Should I create another flood? Have everyone turned into salt? No, none of these would work because many souls would be sent to Hell and Satan could not accommodate that many. He could perform miracles to improve these conditions, but that would take away the Earthlings' freewill. The only solution was for the Earthlings to improve their own fate with a little help from Him. Summoning his Undergods, He gave them instructions to choose a few Earthlings, approach them through apparitions and give them minor powers, which would aid them in their missions. Thus, The Many Faces of God begins.

Download or read book A Feather on the Breath of God written by Sigrid Nunez and published by Picador. This book was released on 2005-12-27 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Sigrid Nunez, the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend, comes A Feather on the Breath of God: a mesmerizing story about the tangled nature of relationships between parents and children, between language and love A young woman looks back to the world of her immigrant parents: a Chinese-Panamanian father and a German mother. Growing up in a housing project in the 1950s and 1960s, she escapes into dreams inspired both by her parents' stories and by her own reading and, for a time, into the otherworldly life of ballet. A yearning, homesick mother, a silent and withdrawn father, the ballet--these are the elements that shape the young woman's imagination and her sexuality.

Download or read book Let s Play Gods written by Victor Freeze and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let’s Play Gods By: Victor Freeze Let’s Play Gods is about a young boy’s quest for glory. Too bad he didn’t know what it would cost. Many are dead and many others display powers resembling the Greek gods! With the government and a mysterious force tracking their every move, what will he do to make his world a better place? There is always a price for power.

Download or read book The Forgotten God written by Andrew Rylands and published by . This book was released on 2023-06-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exiled immortal. A stolen lover. A mystical world on the brink of war. Apollo was once a powerful deity. Now he lives among the ruins of Delphi, trapped in a feline body with his memories magically repressed. When his lover Olympia is kidnapped, Apollo is forced to break his life of blissful seclusion and take a perilous journey to Athens, where cat life is cheap and enemies with old grudges conspire to destroy him and his kind. Plunged into the brewing conflict between the city's feline tribes, he finds himself on a collision course with two immortal-led gangs and another deity seeking a mysterious artifact that could restore the gods' ancient power. Or destroy it completely. Can Apollo reclaim his almighty glory and save Olympia? Or will he ignite a conflict that risks bringing down the whole of Olympus? In The Forgotten God, author Andrew Rylands takes readers on a captivating adventure through a mystical world where gods have become cats, but old animosities remain. If you enjoyed Neil Gaiman's American Gods, you're sure to enjoy The Forgotten God.

Download or read book Breaking the Habit written by Ronel Janse van Vuuren and published by Ronel Janse van Vuuren. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One immortal. An eternity of boredom. Odin used to have it pretty good: whole nations worshipped him, named a day of the week after him, believed him to be wise. These days, though, not even the pets of other immortals respect him. He is tired. And there is only one place to go when you have fewer tomorrows to look forward to: an old age home in Midgard. Scroll up to buy now and join Odin as he finds new life and adventures in retirement. This is the first book in the Irascible Immortals series.