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Afterworlds: Tales of the lives to come
The religions of the world have given us interesting post-death worlds to explore. This set of short stories explores a handful of them. They're around 1500 to 5000 words (10 min to 30 mins reading time) apart from the last one, a longer 'novelette'.
Birds of the Afterworld A deceased birdwatcher strays into an inappropriate afterlife.
Golf Balls of the Material World Col. Mackenzie’s 250-yard drive goes clear across the Keltie’s Burn. Or does it go much, much farther than that?
The Black Loch of the Beast A winter meeting between a grieving climber and... someone else
Fairway to Heaven The golf course is threatened with redevelopment. But what can Fraser and the foursome team do about it – given that all four of them are already dead?
The Love of Granite To die on the granite is better than living on the ground.
Rock Candy Mountain Freshly-squeezed lemonade trickles down the rocks and the cee-gars grow on trees. So can Cross-tie Joe find happiness here?
The Cloud of Unknowing Gerald Macdonaldson, youth group leader, finds his own mapreading leads him into confusion.
Adventures in the Bardo Plane Dying on Shishapangma, will Bibi Armbruster end up in the Preta-realm of the miserable ghosts? Or might he, even, attain enlightenment?
In the night airport A midle-aged man is trying to download his boarding pass. But a voice from the past keeps breaking in.
The Death and Afterlife of the Boatman Tut-Capet When her devotee Tut-Capet is brought to judgement under mysterious circumstances, river goddess Annaket decides to investigate.
Birds of the Afterworld A deceased birdwatcher strays into an inappropriate afterlife.
Golf Balls of the Material World Col. Mackenzie’s 250-yard drive goes clear across the Keltie’s Burn. Or does it go much, much farther than that?
The Black Loch of the Beast A winter meeting between a grieving climber and... someone else
Fairway to Heaven The golf course is threatened with redevelopment. But what can Fraser and the foursome team do about it – given that all four of them are already dead?
The Love of Granite To die on the granite is better than living on the ground.
Rock Candy Mountain Freshly-squeezed lemonade trickles down the rocks and the cee-gars grow on trees. So can Cross-tie Joe find happiness here?
The Cloud of Unknowing Gerald Macdonaldson, youth group leader, finds his own mapreading leads him into confusion.
Adventures in the Bardo Plane Dying on Shishapangma, will Bibi Armbruster end up in the Preta-realm of the miserable ghosts? Or might he, even, attain enlightenment?
In the night airport A midle-aged man is trying to download his boarding pass. But a voice from the past keeps breaking in.
The Death and Afterlife of the Boatman Tut-Capet When her devotee Tut-Capet is brought to judgement under mysterious circumstances, river goddess Annaket decides to investigate.
183 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 20, 2024
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November 2, 2025
This collection was such a delight! Every story was unique and equal parts intrigue, humor, inventive surreality, lyrical attention to landscape, and just the right amount of poignancy and heart. Such an interesting mix of settings, too—climbing routes, golf courses, the American South, Tibet, the Nile delta at an unidentifiable period of time…
(The author tells me he doesn’t play golf personally but he could have fooled me!)
(The author tells me he doesn’t play golf personally but he could have fooled me!)
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