Five More Minutes – 01Jul15
Still sick, narrated the latest episode of Podcastle, watched Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel.
Podcastle 370: Congratulations on Your Apotheosis
by Michelle Ann King
read by Christiana Ellis
First published in the anthology Unidentified Funny Objects 2, from UFO Publishing
As a life coach, Abby Fowler strongly discouraged magical thinking. It was better for people to take responsibility for improving their lives, rather than wait and hope for supernatural assistance. Better, and a lot more reliable.
So Abby would never advise anyone to use a spell, even one that came with impeccable provenance and the crackle of real power in every square inch of the ancient parchment it was inscribed on. Even one that was purely for divination, nothing more than a harmless bit of information-gathering that might, say, help someone with preparing a five-year business plan for their coaching practice in order to apply for a bank loan. She would never advise it because she knew that kind of thing never ended well.
