Xander Odell

Sandra M. Odell is an unknown author to me, but I came across this story by accident. It's, if I understood it well enough, a story about gods falling from the sky, causing thousands of deaths, and people trying to get their piece of the divine produce (skin, muscles, gold, and so on). Until the scavengers (a sort of worms) are let loose.

A very weird story and hard to get into, to "see" what's going on. But it's also a way of showing how mankind doesn't respect even the gods, if they can use show more the skin, the bracelets and other things for their own economic purposes. Or, if you can make money with it, why not?

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A world where the corpses of gods literally fall to Earth. This brought up so many questions about how the world reacts to such a thing and is changed by it, and about the people who attend to those corpses.

Can't write an unbiased review on this as it includes one of my own stories, so this is more of a note for my own records.

This anthology includes themed stories published on crossedgenres.com during July (Heroes/Heroines), August (Sidekicks/Minions), and September (Villains) of 2011, including three pieces new to the print edition.