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    The Gods Are Out Inn: Deities Anonymous Short Stories, #1
    The Gods Are Out Inn: Deities Anonymous Short Stories, #1
    The Gods Are Out Inn: Deities Anonymous Short Stories, #1
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    The Gods Are Out Inn: Deities Anonymous Short Stories, #1

    By M. L. Buchman

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    -a Deities Anonymous story-

    Sometimes even the most tolerant of Goddesses can't deal with the shortcomings of the Gods.

    After 14 billion years as the Devil Incarnate, Michelle just wants a quiet beer with her friends.

    • But the Norse Goddess Freyja is on the verge of  a  nervous breakdown brought on by Odin and  his odious son Thor.
    • Macbeth's witches are in the corner chortling over a new collection of dirty tales.
    • The bartender, a diminutive angel with a speed-talking disorder, has a mind of her own—which was not standard issue.

    Who does Michelle have to banish to get a drink at the Gods Are Out Inn?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBuchman Bookworks, Inc.
    Release dateJul 12, 2017
    ISBN9781386302285
    The Gods Are Out Inn: Deities Anonymous Short Stories, #1
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    M. L. Buchman

    USA Today and Amazon #1 Bestseller M. L. "Matt" Buchman has 70+ action-adventure thriller and military romance novels, 100 short stories, and lotsa audiobooks. PW says: “Tom Clancy fans open to a strong female lead will clamor for more.” Booklist declared: “3X Top 10 of the Year.” A project manager with a geophysics degree, he’s designed and built houses, flown and jumped out of planes, solo-sailed a 50’ sailboat, and bicycled solo around the world…and he quilts.

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      The Gods Are Out Inn

      T hat doesn’t look like a beer and a bump. Michelle glared at the glass Henrietta set atop the battered oaken bar and tried to figure out what it did look like. The light was dim enough that it was hard to see exactly what it was, but it definitely wasn’t a beer and bump.

      There was a general blueness to the drink—like a glass full of Windex—that was likely to be Curacao, an orange-flavored and typically bitter liqueur. Floating about in it were balls of red that weren’t cherries, but might have been congealed Campari, an herbaceous liqueur that was also bitter. The deep-red globules slowly rose and fell in blue Curacao as if they were…

      It looks like sunsets, Henrietta’s tiny expression was round-eyed with wonder as she gazed into the curvaceous Hurricane glass that overtopped her by several inches. Don’t you just love sunsets? I do and who wants a beer and a shot of whiskey when they can have sunsets? Really, Michelle. You must have more imagination. Look, see, now they’re rising now. Sunrises! Her voice practically squeaked with joy. The foot-tall angel was so pleased that her wings lifted her several inches off the bar for a moment. Once she landed, she took one last admiring glance at her creation, then walked down the bar to serve the latest arrival. As she walked along, she gathered up Michelle’s scattered peanut shells and stood up on her tiptoes to tip them into an empty bowl.

      Michelle sipped at the drink reluctantly and it felt as if her face—her entire head—was trying to shrivel into one giant pucker. She hadn’t noticed the thin layer of pure lemon juice that floated atop the Curacao. It must represent light gray

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