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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: Unhelpful Bartender (Fantasy)

After another day of traveling we arrive at a new town instead of more forest. Since we've been on the road for what feels like forever we stop by the local bar. It looks like some of our fellow questing peasants are here too. When we ask where the witch's tower is, the bartender starts telling us a fairytale. I scribble notes in the margins of Vampires Never Get Old (edited by Zoraida Córdova and Natalie C. Parker). When she finally finishes the tale I thank her and then settle down at a table to finish reading the anthology.

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