News Stories from the Choirs of Angels
- ISBN-10
- ISBN-13
- 9798736949731
- Pages
- 384
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-07-31
- Author
- James Baar
Description
News Stories from the Choirs of Angels is a collection of 21 short stories and two novellas marinated in satire, irony and fakery with intimations of the realty of a vast infinity. A mosaic of historical fiction and edgy stories moves from 19th Century St. Petersburg to the ruins of Tintern Abby on the Welsh Border, to a reconquered Mexico City, to a corrupted Metropolitan Opera in New York, to the family mausoleum of a Civil War general. Among the central characters are a talkative Doctor of the Church discussing God's Plan, a doomed impecunious czar, a five-term Roman Consul, a computer game wizard, would-be kings and failed presidents, a secret White House recruiting committee, a stealth drone pilot, a Washington fixer. Clearly the News Stories leave you to believe that the wasting Old Roman Disease generating loss of belief in one's civilization and grip on basic truth is highly contagious. Also the supernatural possibility that all could be influenced by active angels in the Choirs is worthy of consideration on a long restless night.
