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Assistant to a Judge of Hell & Other Stories Kindle Edition

by Shannon Rampe (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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In Assistant to a Judge of Hell, San Guan finally has a crack at reincarnation after a thousand years as a bureaucrat in hell, but only if he can convince a slanderous, insubordinate, and recently-deceased Pan Xiaojian to take the job.

In Babies, Bradley notices that his wife Anne is acting strangely after he finds a litter of babies in the street.

In Warniks, Nimit Okeke, the Speaker of the Solar System, is facing the worst crisis of his administration, and it isn’t the teddy bear-shaped aliens who just gravity-bombed Jupiter.

In Bad Soul, Jade Blossom laments how nothing ever changes, but when he enlists a crude and charismatic poet to push his radical ideas, he unwittingly unleashes a force of nature along with some questionable poetry!

These four stories from the warped brain of Shannon Rampe are darkly twisted, using unexpected violence, vicious snark, and wanton chaos to wildly comedic effect. Terrible, nasty people get their comeuppance and good people—okay, maybe slightly superficial, moderately selfish people—come out on top.

Shannon Rampe is the author of When Stars Move and Other Stories. His writing has appeared in Speculative City, Abyss & Apex, and on The Gallery of Curiosities podcast, amongst others. He writes novels and short stories, plays video games, and practices yoga and craft cocktail making (though not usually at the same time) in southern California. Follow him at www.shannonrampe.com for more.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0B1Z1MPZD
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 21, 2022
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 261 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 80 pages
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Shannon Rampe is a writer and project manager living in southern California. He has attended the Viable Paradise Writing Workshop, the Taos Toolbox Writing Workshop, and Paradise Lost. He is the author of the Amazon bestseller WHEN STARS MOVE & OTHER STORIES and ASSISTANT TO A JUDGE OF HELL & OTHER STORIES.

His works have appeared in Speculative City, Abyss & Apex, and The Gallery of Curiosities podcast, amongst others. In 2015, he was a semi-finalist for the Writers of the Future award. His hobbies include yoga, video games, and craft cocktail-making (though not usually at the same time).

Shannon is represented by Susan Velazquez Colmant at JABberwocky Literary Agency. Follow him at www.shannonrampe.com for more.

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Willow32
5.0 out of 5 stars If you love strange fiction
Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2024
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Great short stories of a weird nature.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable Reading Experience!
Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2023
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This is a very entertaining collection of four short stories. I don't laugh out loud much when I'm reading, but the spine tingling humor in the "Babies" story induced an audible chuckle at a couple points. The Warniks story stood out to me as well. All four stories are cleverly written. I highly recommend this collection for a quick, enjoyable reading experience!
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Alex Sanchez
5.0 out of 5 stars A Slightly Guilty Pleasure
Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2022
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Shannon Rampe obviously had way too much fun writing these stories. In “Assistant to a Judge in Hell” he draws on his knowledge of Chinese mythology to create an afterlife suitable for every frustrating functionary you’ve ever encountered. Out of curiosity, I looked up a few of the hells described; The Hell of Pus and Blood is actually among the 84,000 hells that exist in Chinese mythology. I’m not so sure about the Hell of Infinite Bathtubs or the Hell of Awkward Public Nudity.

“Babies?” If you’re someone who avoids anything with a trigger warning, this little jewel fires off trigger warnings in five or six dimensions. “Warnicks” skewers politics and its handmaiden/boss--media power--in ways that make the image mongering in Hunger Games look like a innocent pastime. “Bad Soul” perhaps dives deepest of the stories, reaching into dichotomies that stretch far beyond our daily human lives. When one character brings about what he most desires, it nearly turns him inside out.

The stories are all a delight to read and a welcome summer break from current craziness.
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Jeffery M. Mathys
5.0 out of 5 stars Great stories for a helluva price!
Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2022
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Do they have lawyers in hell? I mean most people think there is specific place for lawyers in hell, but are they just there to suffer or will you need one when you discover you weren't such a good person after all upon your demise? One thing for certain is that it's a bureaucracy, and assistants and judges abound. Assistant to a Judge in Hell & Other Stories will let you see just how Hell operates. After that let the rest of the stories reveal the farce of future space politics as well as the beauty of song and poetry that can create and unravel the world. Oh and there are some creepy babies too.
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Erik
5.0 out of 5 stars A Hilarious, Twisted, and Thought Provoking Journey
Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2022
“Assistant to the Judge of Hell and other short stories” diverges dramatically from the Shannon Rampe’s prior book and takes you on a hilarious, twisted, and ultimately thought provoking journey. Indeed the first three of the four stories of the book fall most comfortably into all three categories with the third having a delightfully stinging and apt commentary of the times in which we find ourselves. I personally enjoyed the fourth story titled “Bad Soul” the most. It reminded me so vividly of Rampe’s short story “Ghost Parade” in it’s use of symbolism and metaphysical imagery and I loved it for the same reason. Rampe has a gift in telling stories of that type and it’s easy to get swept away in the elegant and thought provoking style in which they are told. I highly recommend you give this book a read and then check out his first book of short stories “When Stars Move and Other Stories”. You won’t be sorry.
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