now their future. "
Spyder backed away and quickly left the street of nightmares.
Thirty Two
Dominions
Before this world, there were other worlds. Before this universe, there were other -universes. Before the gods you know now, there were plenty of other gods.
Gods like to think of themselves as eternal. Its what gets them through the eons, but there are only two true eternals: birth and death. Everything else is junk washed up on the beach. The tide goes out and the pretty pink shells, the gum wrappers and the dead jellyfish are all washed away. Gods and universes come and go this way, too, but a living god knows some tricks. A god can mold energy and matter into anything it wants, or nothing at all. Gods can appear in an instant. Gods can disappear faster than the half-life of Thulium-145.
To save themselves, Gods can scheme and they can hide. Some Gods learned to hold their breath and float like kelp in the elemental chaos that rules the roost when one universe ends and the next hasnt quite kicked in.
Each of these trickster gods thought she or he alone had outwitted Creation by crouching in shadows of the universal attic. Then a young God called Jehovah took a band of rebel angels and tossed them, like week old fish, from his kingdom into the dark between the worlds. As the burning angels fell, the old gods laughed and heard each other. For the first in a long time, knew they werent alone.
Worlds collapsed as the old gods, called the Dominions, got to know each other and learn one anothers favorite games. Galaxies flickered and went out like cheap motel light bulbs. Whole Spheres of existence burned like phosphorous. Though this took a few million years in human terms, it w
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