Crushing

Atarah is a high school tomboy and a stellar athlete, but of below average height and beauty. This is a problem when everyone’s physical attributes and popularity are ranked by an AI computer called Big Social. Atarah has five days before the Crush-it dance to find her secret admirer and become popular or she will have little chance of acceptance to a top university and their romantic reality shows. A cryptic message warns Atarah that Big Social’s selfish protocols for human happiness is killing Earth. A plan to subvert the AI will require Atarah to find true love.

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Due to a Y2K quantum time error, Father Johnny Munday, Wiccan priestess Opal El Greco and Rabbi Gideon Reiner crash-land on a remote island they believe to be in the Pacific Ocean. In truth, they have landed in an alternative universe—an island where Artemis and Dionysus are confined from mortal realms.

All three protagonists struggle with island magic that conjures a tiger shark, truth genies, homicidal angels, and a purgatorial Christian whore house from their flawed natures. A vein of irony underlies this world as Father Munday’s ability to lust after men and women blinds him to love. Priestess Opal possesses both Hellenic beauty and clairvoyance, but is blinded to the needs of others. Rabbi Reiner’s Mossad past blinds him from the differences between war and peace.

It is not fortuitous they are brought to this place. Opal is a key to unseen portals. In Greek tradition, In Greek tradition, Artemis and Dionysus use Opal’s feelings for Johnny to seduce and impregnate her with twin demigods—Good and Evil. The gods’ grand plan is to escape the island with Opal and return to modern day Earth to rule with her twins. Johnny must set his differences with Gideon aside to save the woman he now loves. During the ensuing battle, Opal is pierced by a sword and now carries only one surviving demigod in her womb.

Twelve female clones called weavers, and named from the Chinese zodiac, are paired with twelve protective cyborgs, and become the center of an emerging extinction event. All twelve duos are needed if they are going to have any chance of reanimating the Earth’s magnetic core.

When Weaver Monkey and Jacques Six are separated from the others, they must defeat mercenaries, cross an ocean, survive a hurricane, use interdimensional travel, and even die to find their way back.

They are in a race against time and space as all possible worlds conspire to destroy them. Will their unique abilities be enough to save themselves and their species?