For all of accounted history the Ojatai people of Villenevue Planet in the Great Barrier Galaxy depended on the prophecy of a single herald for their self-preservation.  Their god Imami wrote in the Sacred Texts that he would appoint a single Ojatai, called the Herald, every one hundred forty years to deliver a prophecy of great doom to the People, and that failure to listen would result in their race’s destruction.  The Herald was chosen by casting lots over a hollow disc of dead meat (not...

Zhang woke up to a scorching headache on her left side.  The man who had directed a scholarship for her was snoring, his big fat body with jelly rolls of mass leaking out in all directions sprawled out over the cushion of the bed in the Westin 70th floor in Palm Beach