Angels, Last Girls Club “Devout” Issue 4 Received

The e-mail came yesterday, that LAST GIRLS CLUB (cf. December 23, et al.) had been delivered to my mailbox. Except it wasn’t there. But then, today, a similar message and, as I came home from the library and shopping, it was in my mailbox!

A miracle? Probably not, although dated as issue no. 4, Winter Solstice 2021, it is subtitled THE DEVOUT ISSUE. But then Editor Eda H. Obey explains: Well, if you’re still with us this far then you’ve figured out we aren’t pulling punches. It isn’t easy to confront who we fear as well as what we fear. And, yes I do fear the devout. Believing beyond all reasonable doubt is dangerous territory. . . . And these people need to be faced down. My country is devolving into a theocracy and I am not having it. Texas is turning into Gilead, conservative preachers are preaching sexual repression and misogyny from their pulpits, inspiring incels to gun down innocent women in massage parlors (Mar 16 2021 Atlanta, GA), the Supreme Court is tinkering with abortion rights. . . .

It goes on, with the issue containing eleven stories in all, all presumably concerning at least some aspect of religion or belief. Mine, eighth in the lineup, is “How Many Angels,” originally published in CREATIO EX NIHILO in July 1997, and involves the “Dancing Mania” — an actual phenomenon striking parts of Europe in the Middle Ages — and how, in this case, it helps right a wrong. Or at least maybe act as Divine retribution. And then beyond that there are eight some fact pieces, some but not all on Faith topics as well.

In all, it seems a quite full issue for its 48 pages. I don’t know if LAST GIRLS CLUB is available, though, in the usual places, Amazon et al., but ordering info can be found by pressing here.