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All Stories, General Fiction

The God Game by Gerald Coleman

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“If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing
Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.“
Pascal’s Wager

Brother Kyron’s junior year religion class, The Mystery and Meaning of The Holy Bible, was his latest dodge in the God Game—an odyssey through time, through chaos and order, from Genesis to Revelations, to the dismissal bell.

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All Stories, General Fiction, Short Fiction

Please, Varanasi by Arjun Shah

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Looking out over the bridge, you can see widows in their sarees and gold bangles and solemn, painted faces. Above them, the sun emits a last, romantic orange which blends with the blue of the previous sky, creating stripes of pink which bring the two colors together. The air smells of death.

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