by Ilil Arbel
“Yes. I’m not sure being a God works,” Cimric said with such sadness that dark clouds hovered and rain fell lightly upon us. “For it to succeed there must be dishonesty. Can you credit me with success and blame yourself for failure? Or simply say, Cimric knows best?”
He sighed so loudly the cathedral trembled. “Not always,” Cimric said. “Sometimes I’m not sure. Sometimes I look around and see that for all the glittering gold of the Imperial Empire, too many are unhappy. Which means I failed them. And if I fail, what kind of God am I?”
Cimric disappeared. Feeling the clouds thinning, I leaped back through the door and lay there, panting, trying to understand. If God fails, what does that mean? Is He not God? Can God be fallible? And how do we find ourselves in Him unless He is more, though Cimric said we must be the same. Did He know his doubts all this time? Were we fooled? Or was He?
About the Authors
Ilil Arbel is the author of a number of fiction and non-fiction books, including biographies, memoirs, novels, mythology/folklore, and metaphysics. Two of her books are factual biographies of alien hybrids, both of them descendants of Anunnaki: Anunnaki Ultimatum: End of Time, and On the Road to Ultimate Knowledge. Ilil had done extensive research on both the Anunnaki and the Marradians (erroneously called The Grays); her study of the subject was done while living in Tel Aviv, Paris, and New York. Some of the resulting material is published on the award-winning Encyclopedia Mythica online.
Gary Morgenstein’s novels include the upcoming A Mound Over Hell, a baseball-science fiction story set in 2098 following America’s defeat in World War Three. The first book in The Dark Depths trilogy, A Mound Over Hell is scheduled to be published by BHC Press in March 2018. His other novels include Jesse’s Girl; Loving Rabbi Thalia Kleinman; Take Me Out to the Ballgame and The Man Who Wanted to Play Center Field for the New York Yankees. Morgenstein wrote the critically acclaimed off-Broadway rock musical The Anthem, and his dramatic works range from A Tomato Can’t Grow in the Bronx, Right on Target and Ponzi Man to Saving Stan. His latest musical is Mad Mel Saves the World.