Worshipping Small Gods

By Richard Parks

Worshipping Small Gods is the follow-up to Richard Parks' World Fantasy Award finalist debut collection, The Ogre's Wife -- containing fourteen stories, three of which are original to this volume, and all created with the same philosophy- follow where the story leads, and face whatever comes. These destinations range from comic zen parables as in the title story, "Worshiping Small Gods," to the darkest depths of the human heart as in "Voices in an Empty Room." Whether dark fantasy, comedy, near future sf or wry contemporary fantasy, these stories all share that same insight and honesty...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wildside Press
• Release date: Jul 1, 2020
• ISBN: 9781479451463

Richard Parks

Richard Parks published his first story in Amazing in 1981. He has published over fifty more in the years since. His two collections to date are The Ogre’s Wife: Fairy Tales for Grownups (2002) and Worshipping Small Gods (2007). A third, On the Banks of the River of Heaven, is due in 2010. Other books by Parks include the novella Hereafter and After (2007) and a novel, The Long Look (2008).  Richard Parks lives in Mississippi with his wife and a varying number of cats.

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