Saturday, October 3, 2020

The Plot Against Heaven by Mark Kirkbride

Release date: October 3, 2020
Subgenre: Dark fantasy 

About The Plot Against Heaven:

 

Hell-bent on confronting God after the death of wife Kate, Paul gate-crashes Heaven. With immigration problems and a wall, Heaven turns out to be nowhere near as welcoming as expected. Both Heaven and Hell are modern and militarized, and the cold war that exists between them is about to heat up, with him in the middle of it. Caught on the wrong side of Heaven, Paul faces an impossible choice if he's to have any hope of seeing his wife again.

Death doesn't stand a chance against love.

 

Excerpt:

 

I’m standing in the office of the Superbeing watching the towers of heaven fall, knowing that it’s all my fault.
Jets dash across the sky, missiles streaking.
I never intended to get involved in the eternal struggle between heaven and hell but events had other plans for me. I opened the gate that let the forces of hell in, turned the cold war hot.
A helicopter passes over the city. Rockets shoot from pods slung either side of the airframe.
The building shudders. An alarm blares.
Smoke darkens another clutch of towers.
“Repair to the bunkers,” a voice repeats over the PA.
Behind me, through the doorway, bodies lie as if in mimicry of the postures in which they fell.
I’m still staring out of the floor-to-ceiling window.
A bug-headed helicopter heads this way.
“You know what to do,” says a voice in my ear.
Yeah, to stop the war I have to commit an act that would make me the enemy of heaven and earth, if I’m not already.
The thing is, my wife’s down there, in all that chaos. Some borders you can cross but can you get back?

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About Mark Kirkbride:

Mark Kirkbride lives in Shepperton, England. He is the author of The Plot Against Heaven, Game Changers of the Apocalypse and Satan’s Fan Club, all published by Omnium Gatherum. Game Changers of the Apocalypse was a semi-finalist in the Kindle Book Awards 2019. His short stories can be found in Under the Bed, Sci Phi Journal, Disclaimer Magazine, Flash Fiction Magazine and So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library. His poetry has appeared in the Big Issue, the Morning Star, the Daily Mirror, Sein und Werden and Horror Writers Association chapbooks. 

 

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