The God Maker
“Yes, this one is coming along just fine.” Dr. Thodokaraius slid a lever up the status display. All vitals looked nominal. Overall health was good. Development…
No Jazz World Ever
Don’t be embarrassed. What a beautiful, glistening wound. Shhh!!! Don’t cry! Don’t cry, okay? Stop crying, please. It’s not going to get you what you want. Lay…
Hunter's Birth
Wind roared through the darkest night bearing in its wake a furious snowstorm, for those inside the tiny hut it seemed like the Winter Goddess was trying to…
Natural Selection
_Consider the abilities of the deities of myth and legend: Raining fire from the sky to reduce cities to ash, calling forth thunder and lightning, creating…
Cosmic Leftovers
“So I’ve been thinking of moving out of my parents’ place,” said the six-limbed fawn-like being as it stirred an expresso in the pan-dimensional coffee shop…
The Three of Summers
Big Sky Guy glanced around the table at the other players, at the pot, at his hand again; five Princes- Winters, Springs, Tweens, Autumns and Highs. If his…
The Unerring Word
“Ria, how’s eternity treating you?” “Hey Oaoex. Same old, same old. I managed to appear in a vision to a human, but he was locked up in a mental institution.”…
Time Breathes
With a desultory glance around he mutters, “Cripes, not again.” A cloud bank rolls in from the East and rolls back again. Three rats scuttle across a rooftop…
Olympus
Dear Zeus, I accept your bet. Tomorrow I, God, will make it snow over Arlington, VA. Please respect the fact that the snow day will be pathetic, because i…
Peer Review
He rubbed his temples, pretending it helped. She’s cute, he told himself, and if I help her edit this goddamn story for this goddamn writing class she’ll…
Second Chancers - Ready, Steady, Go
The great hall swept swiftly into action. All trappings of festivities and idleness were spirited away, replaced by the earnest practicalities of war. If the…
Olympian
“Hephaestus, you need to stop with this war, Olympus is in ruins and you’ve all gone insane.” Aphrodie begged. It had been a full year since the gods began to…
Blessed
They battled high upon the wall walk, pushing and pulling, slashing with their blades, and slinging spells, neither gaining a foothold over the other. A blast…
Children of a Lesser Pantheon - The Risen
Excito, meus liberi. The words were spoken, and they rose. Some were huge, terrible beasts. Others were small, almost weightless creatures. But they all bore…
Horrors of the School System
It woke into pain. The pain of being bound into flesh, the pain of the sea that pressed down on It’s material form, the pain of It’s body having been eaten…
The God Killer
They call me God-Killer. In the mountains of the pale sun, where the moons cleave the rocks in twain, flowing avalanche of shale and stone down into the…
The Beginning that Never Was
In the beginning there was everything - not the nothingness, the endless void, but everything - all that was, is, could be - right there, coming together in…
Gods...1
No god I know is still alive - all five thousand and seven appear to have died. The great god Huitzilopochtli led the Aztecs’ divine pack - but He departed…
Creation and destruction
His eyes were crossed. The cold cylindrical corridor stared at His face. Air pooled around Him and cooled the sweat which seemed like a constant reminder of…
Warriors for the Weak.
Two lifetimes sacrificed for this victory. They had wandered the lands in the days of prehistory, when the races were many and magic was strong. They had…