Angelworld
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After God is killed, His divine servants are abandoned and banished to the Earth, no longer of use to the usurper. Stripped of their divinity, many of these angels are sold like livestock, clipped with ear tags and lined up in shackles. One such angel is Nivael.
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- Part 1 of Angelworld
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"Favored soft-throated pet, the most cooperative, the easiest to work with, the most beautiful to look at. Would all of the angels receive this liked thing, this good thing? Iriel wanted them to be happy, he was an altruist and a flock animal, but a secret rotten desire craved something special between himself and his owner."
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Angels are no longer God's servants. To humans, they are pets, toys, meat. One of them is his owner's favorite.
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- Part 2 of Angelworld
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"Some things are meant to be worshipped through distant supplication, but others invite touch."
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In the angelcote, the dead God's fallen servants gather under heat lamps, kneeling on mulch and hay, bred by humans to be lowly things distant from their ancestors. A butcher who has only known angels for their bodies rescues a nameless thing from slaughter and takes it home.
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- Part 3 of Angelworld
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"Primordial awareness cracks open within you, and your reality is albumen-slick shell, coppery membrane and bloodscent around a vein of crimson light.
Artificial warmth has incubated your unconscious stirrings, warmed your opaline yolk and its chalazic tethers. A shimmer buds at your fontanel, urging you to continue your important work. You had still been asleep when you'd elbowed your shell until it split. Now, you know you are hatching."
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Fresh and unknowing, a young angel awakens in a hatchery with demons as his custodians, only to find that life has been marked out for him: he is prey, livestock. Whatever innocence remains is packaged into something useful.
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- Part 4 of Angelworld
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"The halo above the angel’s head spasmed again, its aquamarine light dimming, then flaring in uneven pulses. The sound it made sharpened, the whine rising toward a thin, insectile pitch. His breath came faster now, shallow and bright with panic, misting faintly in the cold air. He pressed his shoulder harder into the brick, as if the wall might remember Heaven and open for him."
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A fallen angel has a run-in with a human stranger.
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- Part 5 of Angelworld