The Horrible Cripple of Toothpick Palace - Kindle Fiction

The Horrible Cripple of Toothpick Palace
 by David Warkentin

Since the first prayer drifted quietly up into the skies, humanity has done business with the gods. The faithful pay for godly protection with prayer and supplication, while the gods live in the skies like benevolent kings. Over time, this agreement has become so firmly entrenched that it is honoured without question.

While humanity and its gods enjoy the stagnant comfort of their respective routines, a hate-filled man is planning revenge on both of them. He skillfully evades the gaze of the gods while amassing worldly influence and reinventing himself as a super villain. With the aid of a fortune made through the exploitation of humanity's greed and vanity, the evil genius builds and empire to rival that of the holy protectors in the sky.

In the small town of Luxury Plains -- a factory town that unwittingly serves the terrible little man -- the citizens are too preoccupied with a heavily publicized military action against an evil that lurks across the ocean to realize that they are to be the fuel in a fire with which he plans to consume the world.

An examination of the perils of blind faith and conformity, "The Horrible Cripple of Toothpick Palace," is a modern fable that follows a world's descent into unholy chaos when a mere mortal manages to get a bitter stranglehold on the gods through manipulation of their followers.

What happens when the complex systems of faith and power that support modern societies catch fire? Can humanity and their gods survive the attack of a twisted mortal demon who knows every weak point in the foundation that supports their way of life? Could this be the end of the world?

Written as a fairy tale for adults, "The Horrible Cripple of Toothpick Palace" examines all these questions through a sprawling story that spans two continents.

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