Bible Stories for Adults, James Morrow, Harcourt Brace, 1996
This group of stories could be thought of as religion through satire. A woman gives birth to, not just a globe, but, a fully functional ecosystem, with oceans, weather and dinosaurs. A man suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder has not just a couple, or a couple of dozen, personalities, but millions. The personalities are forming countries and war has just been declared. Another story looks at the Unknown Soldier memorial at Arlington Cemetery from the point of view of the person in the casket.
God. living anonymously in the penthouse of a giant skyscraper, gives mankind a new plague. A planet full of androids base an entire religion around Darwin's "Origin of the Species". Another story is about a present-day version of slavery. Job is back on a modern dung heap, and he wants a rematch with God.
I really liked these stories. Morrow knows how far to take the satire without going too far. These are different, humorous, well done and highly recommended.
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