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”Date: 4/28/20 Tuesday, 5:00 PM. Patio
Some people are really interested in their ancestors. Why would a person scurry from courthouse to cemetery to Ancestry dot com looking up obscure names? Why did Luke bother with genealogy? Let me tell you about my Grandpa Fry, a man I never met. Read more…
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.
A father’s power, a daughter’s life, a world at stake: Hana’s life is slowly draining away… because her father is desperate to smash his enemies. An alternate-future story of a man whose holy vow puts his daughter in terrible danger.
I was thinking about the story of Jephthah’s daughter, one of the more horrible stories in the Bible. Why would a father do that, I wondered? My story went far afield from the original, but has its origins in that question.
This was my first indie publication, in e-book form only.
Dave Raines, Writer 