Eleven short stories and a poem that show us what comes after the end of all we know.<\/p>\n
This is the fourth volume of the collected short stories of Joe Vasicek. It includes:<\/em><\/p>\n The Manchurian Paradox<\/strong> A Fatal Rebirth<\/strong> The Final Turning<\/strong> The New Covenant<\/strong> Hearken and Behold (by J.M. Wight)<\/strong> The End of Elysium<\/strong> The Promise of King Washington<\/strong> Lord of the Slaves<\/strong> The Other Side of Reality<\/strong> Schr\u00f6dinger’s Diaper<\/strong> Two Hours Ago<\/strong> Welcome to Our Crazy Family<\/strong> Eleven short stories and a poem that show us what comes after the end of all we know.<\/strong><\/p>\n This is the fourth volume of the collected short stories of Joe Vasicek. It includes:<\/em><\/p>\n The Manchurian Paradox
\nWe have met our timeline’s enemy and he is us.<\/p>\n
\nNothing in this world should live forever\u2014not even civilization itself.<\/p>\n
\nThis is how the world ends: not with a bang, but with a whimper\u2014thanks to me.<\/p>\n
\nTo restore a fallen America, an ancient and terrible covenant must be renewed.<\/p>\n
\n“Hearken, oh ye hypocrites, and behold the desolation that is already come upon you!”<\/p>\n
\nFor the promise of paradise, the last civilization will surrender to the apocalypse.<\/p>\n
\nWhen the aliens came, it wasn’t a military invasion: it was an economic one.
\n(Again, Hazardous Imaginings<\/em>, December 2020)<\/p>\n
\n“Everyone secretly wants to be a slave. Those who deny it simply haven’t found the right master.”<\/p>\n
\nWhat if your future self came back to give you advice, and all it did was confuse you?<\/p>\n
\n\u201cStays clean and dry until you\u2019re free to change it!\u201d \u2026except not quite.
\n(Bards and Sages Quarterly<\/em>, April 2022)<\/p>\n
\nA time machine without paradoxes, so long as it’s not abused.<\/p>\n
\nTwo genderqueer lesbians and a tranny have a rebellious daughter who does the unthinkable and decides to marry a Christian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\nA Fatal Rebirth
\nThe Final Turning
\nThe New Covenant
\nHearken and Behold (by J.M. Wight)
\nThe End of Elysium
\nThe Promise of King Washington
\nLord of the Slaves
\nThe Other Side of Reality
\nSchr\u00f6dinger’s Diaper
\nTwo Hours Ago
\nWelcome to Our Crazy Family<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[1368],"product_tag":[1443,1386,1444,1376],"class_list":{"0":"post-15234","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-ebooks","7":"product_tag-fantasy","8":"product_tag-political-fiction","9":"product_tag-religious-fiction","10":"product_tag-science-fiction","11":"entry","13":"first","14":"instock","15":"downloadable","16":"virtual","17":"taxable","18":"purchasable","19":"product-type-simple"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/15234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=15234"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=15234"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=15234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}