An Apotheosis

By Forrest Aguirre

Angel or madman? The greatest swordsman of his day contemplates his victories and defeats as he prepares to step off into the great unknown of apotheosis.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Forrest Aguirre
• Release date: Mar 24, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476088464

Forrest Aguirre

Forrest Aguirre's fiction has appeared in over fifty venues in both speculative and literary venues. His work has appeared in Asimov's, Postscripts, American Letters & Commentary, Gargoyle, Exquisite Corpse, and Apex Magazine, among many other magazines and anthologies. His work has received several honorable mentions in various Year's Best anthologies, and has been shortlisted for the StorySouth Million Writers Award. His first collection of short fiction, Fugue XXIX, is published by Raw Dog Screaming Press. Forrest is also a World Fantasy Award recipient and Philip K. Dick Award finalist for his editing of the Leviathan 3 anthology with co-editor Jeff VanderMeer. Forrest lives in Madison, Wisconsin.

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An Apotheosis

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The blasphemy of it all was not lost on me. Hubris? Perhaps. Hauteur? Most definitely. I stood as Nimrod atop Babel, the wind beneath my feet causing the scaffold to sway like a wounded horse about to expire, casting it’s rider to the earth.