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If you're seeking inspiration, awakening, and enlightenment, these stories can guide you on your path. A unique combination of fables parables, and tall tales, they are a fun read.
A story for the future can be about the past, present, or reflect a timeless truth. It can be a fable, parable, or a tale that touches our souls in a magical way. These little stories carry big messages for you to decipher and integrate. I collect these stories with the title Oh My God as each one, in its own way, is intended to awaken your sense of amazement, and hope.

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Publié par	Archway Publishing
Date de parution	28 juillet 2023
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781665747448
Langue	English

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Oh My God
Stories for a New World

BOB MANDEL

Copyright © 2023 Bob Mandel.
Cover design by Checkerberry Graphics, Inc.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, names, incidents, organizations, and dialogue in this novel are either the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

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Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

ISBN: 978-1-6657-4743-1 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-6657-4744-8 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2023913695

Archway Publishing rev. date: 07/28/2023

I dedicate these s tories to Mallie, not a sho rt story, an epic lady , love of my life, an odyssey you continue to create with me.
Contents

Oh My God
The Anomalies
The Prayer
The White Hole
The No Karma Man
The Nowhere Woman
God’s Shoes
The Magic Mirror
The Prince of Hope
The Listener
The Phantom Hand
The Turned Around Woman
The Wounded Man
The Barista
The Fountain of Hope
Leaving Home
The Man God Needed
The Elephant Boy
The Calico Cat
A Man with No Opinion
The Worrisome Woman
The Shadow
The Girl Who Levitated
The Disappointed Man
The Pushy Woman
The Healer in High Demand
The Onion Man
The Thank You Man
The Batty Old Angel
Mountain Climber
The Beggar
The Psychiatrist
The Last Question
The Pall
The Really Big Man
The Kind Wife
The Eyes of Beauty
Moses on the Mountain
The River of the Dancing Fishes
The Sunflower Man
The Prodigal Father
The Pheasant
The Woman Who Was Up in the Air
The Incarcerated Woman
Autumn Joy
The Woman Who Faced Death
The Gatherer
The Man Who Took His Chances
The Girl Who Dances with Rain
The Anomaly Who Woke Up
The Rich Man and His Wife
The Big Hand
Father Time
The Boy Who Learned Kindness
The Girl with Two Left Feet
The Humidor
The Lost Man
The Giant Ladybug
God’s Epiphany
The Cousins
The Rabbi
The Most Beautiful Woman in the World
The People Who Forgot
The Disagreeable Couple
The True Friend
The Great Ring of Fire
Love and Hate
The Origin of Nature
The Woman Who Prepared
The Empty Woman
The Man Who Lost His Head
The Very Gifted Woman
The Dirty Boy
The Married Couple
The Second Son of God
The Banjo Man
The Woman Who Lost Time
A Certain Antelope
The Kind King
God’s New Creation
The Rainbow Dome
The Boy Who Died Too Young
The Shadow Boxer
The Clamor of Angels
The Knight of Loving Kindness
The Wonderful Witch of Balderdash
The Three Questions
The Saint of Kings County
The Swimming Lesson
The Glitter and the Glow
The Bicycle
The Heart of Gold
A Very Little Pebble
The Return of Moses
The Coast is Clear

When the Covid-19 pandemic shut down my business in March, 2020, I bit the bullet like many others and opened up shop on Zoom. I began offering talks once or twice a week to support my clients, students, their friends and families, during the dark days of social distancing and isolation. One day I wrote a simple parable to illustrate a point I wanted to teach. The next day, I wrote another. So it was, I wrote all these stories, one by one, to begin discussions at my Zoom groups. About a year later, a friend suggested I compile the stories into a book. So here you have a parade of parables, prose poems, fables, and conundrums to challenge your mind and open your heart. And, hopefully, some words of wisdom.
Bob Mandel
Oh My God

Oh my God, the woman at the window said. Oh my God. She was looking at something out of this world. My God, Oh my God, she said over and over again.
She pulled out her iPhone, snapped several pictures, and posted them on all the social media with the caption, OMG. Soon the whole world would know. It would go viral for sure.
Then she went back to look again. She found a magnifying glass so she could observe more closely and there could be no doubt what she was seeing with very own eyes. Yes, what she saw took her breath away. Again. My God, she repeated.
And what she saw was this. On the huge picture window in the living room was a massive spider web at least two meters in diameter. It was picture perfect but too big to be true. Oh my God, she said.
But that wasn’t what took her breath away.
On the web she observed the intricate details of little people going up and down and all around, as if attending to their daily activities. God God God, the woman repeated.
And there, at one intersection of two strands in the web, she saw herself, her very own self, though a miniature version. There she was, standing there with a magnifying glass looking at a tiny spider web on a little window. Oh my God.
And even that was not what took her breath away. What it was that made her repeat God’s name over and over again was what she beheld at the top of the window, above the web.
Oh my God!
The Anomalies

And so it came to pass, the world whimpered to an end. It had been a long time coming, so nobody should have been surprised. But still, it came as a shock.
The few survivors were called the Anomalies and they roamed the wasteland searching for what they needed to survive. They were good people and they grew to believe they survived because of their goodness, maybe as people chosen to build a new world.
The Anomalies held meetings to discuss things, such as what to learn from the old world, what not to carry into the new world, and what could be totally different and wonderful. They were nomads, moving mostly on foot, sometimes on old bikes and skateboards. As there was no gasoline, all the old cars lay at the sides of the roads, relics and reminders of an antiquated economy and lost civilization.
One day the Anomalies came to a bridge, a bridge they had never seen. It was a huge golden bridge that went up into the clouds. They had to decide whether to proceed or turn back. Everyone agreed to continue, but when they arrived in the clouds, they were not so sure. So, they divided into three tribes. One would go ahead, another go back. And the third would stay in the clouds.
The result was as such. The one that returned to the old world continued to forage, struggling to adapt and survive. The one that stayed in the clouds stayed in the clouds. And the one that went to the future went to the future, and who knows what happened to them!
The Prayer

A little girl lit a candle in her tiny bedroom. She prayed. On the other side of the village, a young man heard her prayer. He lit a candle and also prayed. Far away, across the ocean in another land, an old lady in a bed heard the young man, so she sat up, lit a candle, and prayed with him. Almost immediately, an old man in yet a different part of the world, about to light his cigar, changed his mind, lit a candle and clasped his hands. So, it went on, people all over the world hearing the prayer and lighting their candles.
As the days passed and more and more candles glowed, the people who were not praying began to wonder what was happening. Why are all these people praying? What for? Why so many candles burning every night?
Meanwhile, the Candle-lighters, as they came to be called, continued to connect with more and more people, who, hearing the prayer, could not resist lighting new candles. The other people, the Hopeless, as they were named, gradually became more upset, angry, and aggressive, often attacking those in prayer, stealing their candles, and even burning down their homes. But nothing they did could slow down the spread of prayers and candles throughout the world.
Then it came to pass that one day, the sun did not rise, and the Earth entered a period of night without dawn. As the days passed, the Candle-lighters thrived and the Hopeless sunk into an abyss of lost dreams until one day, a little girl, who had just heard the prayer and was about to light her candle, said to her mother. I have an idea. Why don’t we invite all the Hopeless into our homes and then we can share our candlelight with them? Her mother smiled, told her father, who told his neighbors, who told their cousins, and so it came to pass that all the Candle-lighters everywhere shared their light and their prayers, their homes and their bread, with all the people living in darkness.
And that is how one little girl in her tiny room, with a prayer and a candle, changed the world.
The White Hole

A Being of Light came half way across the universe early one morning to see what she could do. She came out of a White Hole which was a reservoir for all the Light in the Universe, a storage facility ut