Uncollected Anthology #21: Deities

Search for missing gods or do some job hunting. Leave the window open for a brother bird god and be sure to protect an artifact. Use your credit and sacrifice it all for your warrior self.

Enjoy the urban fantasy stories of the Uncollected Anthology: Deities now collected in this bundle.

Search for missing gods or do some job hunting. Leave the window open for a brother bird god and be sure to protect an artifact. Use your credit and sacrifice it all for your warrior self.

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The Stories

The Stories

“Final Gift” by Michael Warren Lucas

Mha fought in the Spanish-American War and earned all the respect an orcess could dream of. But not even a life of constant struggle prepared her to endure her final days in a rural Michigan barn, so age-decrepit she can’t even pick up a cow. Her husband’s death abandons her to face that end alone.
Mha holds one thing beneath even solitude and weakness: dealing with senseless humans.
But only humans can save her from sacrificing all her warrior left her…

“With a Little Help From the Gods” by Leah R. Cutter

Ever since Bernadette’s younger brother transformed himself into a bird god, she’s kept the kitchen window open for him, in case he stops by.

But that morning, when he does make his appearance, he needs Bernadette’s help.

What help could Bernadette, who only has minor plant magic, give to one of the gods themselves?

With a Little Help From the Gods is another story in the same magic-realism universe as The Midnight Gardener and The Last Little Dogie. A little different than your average Seattle, with strange magic and stranger sites on every corner.

“Shattered, Scattered, and Saved” by Dayle A. Dermatis

Bree works for a top secret agency in London that protects magical artefacts.

Also caring for an ill son, she chafes against being sent to oversee Arianrhod’s Wheel during a special full moon.

Will temptation to heal her son with the Wheel overwhelm her?

Does anyone have the right to choose who lives and who dies?

Only the Goddess knows for sure….

“The Winter Goddess of Anoka, Minnesota” by DeAnna Knippling

An urban explorer breaks into what was once the United States’ “most haunted asylum” in order to test a theory that people will only sense ghosts under certain conditions.

She’s a skeptic. She’s already convinced she knows the truth.

But when she gets into the tunnels underneath the restored buildings of the asylum, she encounters someone–or something–she didn’t expect.

“Where Credit’s Due” by Stefon Mears

When a god backs your credit card, the rewards are out of this world.

Phil Jeffries, a musician with a very special credit card. Mercury Federal Credit Union. Excellent terms. Low interest. Bonus points for paying the balance every month.

Phil Jeffries, about to discover that those bonus points can change his life.

If he can live with the consequences.

“Job Hunt” by Rebecca M. Senese

Silvia prides herself on her professionalism, assisting the unemployed with their job search. She considers herself tough but fair, ready to extend any effort as long as her clients do their part.
Until she meets a man named Baal.

Dressed in a tattered robe, a rope for a belt and no shoes, Baal claims to need a job but has no discernible skills.

Presenting Silvia with the challenge of her career.

Solve the puzzle with Silvia in Job Hunt.

“Chariots of the Godless” by Robert Jeschonek

The old gods have returned and walk among us. Their powers are divine, their glory awesome to behold.
But someone, somehow, is abducting them.

As gods go missing, their disappearances seem inexplicable…until strange clues impossibly point to beings from beyond the stars. Alien abduction expert Dr. Hector Nessus gets the call to investigate, working with the breathtakingly beautiful Captain Mayet, goddess of justice.

The hunt for the missing becomes a race against time as more gods are taken, and Nessus and Mayet discover a dark purpose behind the abductions. As brutal conflict between the godly and the extraterrestrial looms, only Nessus, with his own secret past, might stand a chance of putting a stop to the carnage.

Or triggering a cataclysm unlike any the world has ever known.

“A Better Place” by Jamie Ferguson

Once every dell, mountain, and river had its own god or goddess, but now Dideacea, goddess of the spring Licurgha, is the last of her kind. After years of being alone, forgotten by the people who worshipped her, she decides to leave her beloved spring and go to the nearby village. What she finds on her journey is far, far different from what she expected.

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