The strange, the unusual: A young woman with a wish and a teenager with can-do skillz. An old woman collects ghosts, and an old man kills gods. A young man dies (but wait!) and a man lives the time of his life. A woman sees what’s fantastic and true, and it’s our world…. Curious people.
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Anxious, much? Things seem a little out of control? Find a pig.
Let me confess up front: with regard to this project, I was in a sour mood this week. Bottom line, I didn’t memorize this story; and after recording a few thoughts, it lay fallow for a week. However, that will become a blessing, as related below.
Continue reading “Luke 8:26-39. Thank God for Pigs”Luke starts with a comic scene, and the old preacher is the butt of the joke. Silenced! A blow against the patriarchy! Wait, this is not the kind of change I wanted.
My morning prayers did not feel as holy as yesterday’s. Also the tendon on my right leg, tweaked in Judo, is tight and sore. I guess that’s what happens if you take it up again after 40 years. Also I must deal with Medicare today. It feels like a Zechariah kind of day. He goes to the altar hoping to encounter the divine, but it doesn’t go as he expects. Read more…
The Bible as story? Not pull-quotes, not facts, not rules & regs, but story… and still truth. Transformative. Read more.
Written with the brilliant Gra Linnaea. Andern’s life-work is to kill the gods. Now he’s after Delight, the last. If he succeeds, and the gods are gone, what then? For him… and for his universe?
You can find it on Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show for free, if you’re a subscriber. Or: go to Amazon and spend $0.99!
Stories of mine that you can find online:
The Last God-Killer – written with the brilliant Gra Linnaea, and sold to Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show. Andern’s life-work is to kill the gods. Now he’s after Delight, the last. If he succeeds, and the gods are gone, what then? For him… and for his universe?
Suitcase in Slow Time – a podcast at Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine podcast site. Ben has devoted his life to serving justice. Now he has only milliseconds to bring his own killer to justice.
Blivet in the Temporal Lobes – from Daily Science Fiction. June’s life had turned a little strange since her surgery. On a usual day, filled with calendars that come to life, plague victims cooking breakfast, and Death Stars… Adonis walks in.
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