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Yours Celestially by Al Hess

After divorce, death, and having his reformatted soul uploaded into a new body, Sasha expected resurrection to be a fresh start. His time spent in digital Limbo with the program's cheeky AI guardian angel, Metatron, was cathartic, but what good is a second life when he only sees his daughter on the weekends, he has all the same problems he had before he died, and he can't seem to shake the ache for the married life he lost? If that weren't frustrating enough, a glitch in the program has given Sasha the ability to sense Metatron even outside of Limbo. And Metatron is in love. The angel's sickly-sweet yearning for one of the souls still in Limbo has turned Sasha's stomach into caramelized lead. It's hard enough to move on without someone else's feelings making the emptiness in his own life even more acute. He didn't have playing wingman to an actual winged being on his bingo card, but he's determined to help Metatron make a move on their crush so he ca...

Clear Your Shit: Ogre in the road (Intimidating)

We'd been riding most of the day when Heather spotted something blocking our path. As we neared the figure, the horses began to shy and we realized it was an ogre in clothes covered in streaks of dark red. My sense of horror grew as I realized that the red was old blood. I pulled my tooth club from its place on my belt and yelled as I rode past the ogre, hitting it on the head and racing on by. Heather swung her feather and it dropped glitter into the ogre's eyes. The ogre roared as we raced away, we didn't dare to stop for several minutes. Finally we slowed back to our normal pace and I was able to finish reading Beloved by Toni Morrison.

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