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Snack-Based Incident Fifteen

The vending machine achieved awareness at 14:22 on a Wednesday. This was discovered when it refused to dispense a chocolate bar.

Juno stood in front of it, blinking. She pressed the button again, but nothing happened.
“…Don’t do this,” she said. "I'm hungry. I'm stressed. I just want a snack."

The vending machine hummed thoughtfully. “No,” it replied.

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Published on December 22, 2025 03:12 Tags: comedy, fantasy, free, funny, gallows-humor, gallows-humour, kindle, ku, story, those-old-gods
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"This is a brilliant collection of short stories. Juno is hilarious and I laughed out loud multiple times while reading. I can’t wait for the full Those Old Gods: Juno book to come out. It’s completely mad and I love the concept.

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“Ascension wasn’t a promotion, nor a reward. It wasn’t a gift tied up with a celestial ribbon. It was a gauntlet made of grief, loss, and just enough cruelty to make you wonder if the old gods were bored, or maybe testing you.”
N.J. Leaver, Those Old Gods: Short Stories – A Humorous Urban Fantasy of Gods, Death, and Divine Bureaucracy

“And Juno Verdant? She will die, eventually, just not today. Today, she was just hurtling toward her own godhood like an over-caffeinated shopping trolley in a Black Friday sale: unstable, accelerating, and one display rack away from taking out a pensioner before security stepped in.”
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“Ascension wasn’t a promotion, nor a reward. It wasn’t a gift tied up with a celestial ribbon. It was a gauntlet made of grief, loss, and just enough cruelty to make you wonder if the old gods were bored, or maybe testing you.”
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“And Juno Verdant? She will die, eventually, just not today. Today, she was just hurtling toward her own godhood like an over-caffeinated shopping trolley in a Black Friday sale: unstable, accelerating, and one display rack away from taking out a pensioner before security stepped in.”
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