Bible Stories for Adults

Morrow unabashedly delves into matters both sacred and secular in this collection of short stories buoyed by his deliciously irreverent wit.

These fables span Victorian London and an alternate twenty-first century, finding Ebenezer Scrooge schooled in revolutionary communism and Abraham Lincoln contemplating the Republic from a fast-food booth. Along the way, the author gleefully dispatches the Almighty to a Fifth Avenue penthouse.

A central Pennsylvania farm becomes the unlikely birthplace of an infant planetary biosphere. Elsewhere, the author brings Job to a modern television dung heap to debate his Creator through an unplugged Whirlpool clothes dryer.

Among the dozen selections is the Nebula Award-winning “Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge.”

• Alternate History: Helen of Troy flees her golden cage.
• Unreliable Narrator: An unprincipled Great War deserter who shot his commanding officer finds himself celebrated as the venerated occupant of Arlington’s Tomb of the Unknowns.
• Speculative Fiction: Tasked with deciphering the lost Law of Moses, a mobile artificial intelligence faces an existential adversary arguing that divine commandments will wreck humanity.
• Multiple POV: Members of an eccentric Cape Cod fellowship gather annually to indulge the sensory passions—from pottery to roller coasters—of their deceased benefactor.
• Also by This Author: This Is the Way the World Ends, Towing Jehovah and City of Truth.