Take Me with You
“I wish you could come with me,” Juliette said, a hand moving like God’s, parting her hair like the earth as the rain flooded from the sky into the valleys of…
Punishment
He thought that it must be a punishment; he was still alive and his wife was tearfully looking down at him in the hospital bed, clutching his hand happily…
Naissance
“Have you not considered,” asked Ortho, ” that if the almighty wished you to fly, he would have provided you with suitable appendages?” “App - what?” replied…
Think About Aten in Your Eggshell
Moonlight tells me that it’s finally time. Time to crack your egg’s eggy shell, crawl on out and stretch your pretty neck. You don’t have to worship Aten any…
the earth is round
in the beginning there was god. now this god with a small ‘g’, he liked circles. (there are three circles in ‘god’.) (god + a circle is ‘good’.) (circles are…
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…
God will always be dead to me
The lights on his face reflected. Showing every little stubble as his eyes pierced through me. His words had a way. They touched my heart. Made my soul feel…
Authority derives not from some farcical aquatic ceremony
Bright light. Shoe on steel. Tiny pinprick of light. “When you think about it. It’s not hard to imagine where it starts. I guess it just goes to prove 1600…
Failure to Communicate
Stopping in the hallway, Joe took a minute to straighten his halo and take a deep breath. Letting it out, he walked into God’s outer office. “Good morning,” he…
The last laugh. No, Really!
The Big Crunch Church of The Final Deliverance (BCCOTFD) was on the final countdown. Long ago, it was thought there was not enough matter in the Universe to…
On FATE and DESTINY
What purpose does this life serve for what reason do we live Some say its to Help others some to help ourselves and still others claim that it is for the…
Fishy Work to Do
Floating in the middle of the kitchen, just below eye level, Martin puckered and blinked his bulging eyes. Swirls of water lolled about him, aqueous satellites…
The Hollow God
Present at the beginning, we shall be present at the end. Twisted hunk of metal in semblance of life, robe of steel wrapped around nothing. Older than cities…
Heat Death
The end of Time nears. Heat death of the Universe. O. How I have waited for this. But I weep for my children, my benevolent and wise children the posthuman…
The Mitosis of a God
Seething at planck’s constant the energy sheds streamers of light, racing past the quarks, leptons, mesons, to burst through into the baryonic, bobbing in the…
Atheism
Eternity happened before you. Didn’t notice, did you? The doctor pulls you forth into the world. Why? You gather the courage to hold hands with Stacy in 4th…
Confrontation with a god in an industrial throne room
The cracked and faded orange plastic of the seat was mostly attached to a battered frame of bent metal tubes. It rested on a plank raised, just a little, by…
Unauthorized Biography
The messenger, dressed in white, approached the throne with his head bowed respectfully. “My Lord, Gabriel has returned.” The bearded man sitting upon the…
A Long Weekend
My first coffee was empty by the time my computer finished booting. Studiously avoiding the screen, I slipped off to brew a second. That done, I had no way out…
Smile at me again
I walked past a church as I made my way to my destination. It was modern, and from the outside you wouldn’t believe it was a church. But I knew it was, because…