Sam Minot Reader

<p>These are two works of fiction that have a common statement mainly that the human experience and the anomaly of life itself exists for a purpose to discover God. The first story <I>The Red and the Green</I> takes a wild trip into the future where men and women are separated by a type of cosmic divorce. There are two gods that have created the human race and they are represented by the opposite colors: red and green. The author is summoned to this era through the touching of a fern and it is his duty to create a painting that will liberate one of the diseased gods.</p><p>The second story <I>The Last Tear</I> touches an archetypical myth of the lost goddess Sofia whom was ousted from Christianity; for in the early Gnostic teachings there was Sofia and Jesus in the more allegorical rather than literalist teachings. In this story a young woman gets thrown into this goddess-like existence after a car accident. She wanders around spreading the word of peace and salvation to anyone who is receptive enough. The world reaches a boiling point and an earth-destroying comet hits annihilating everything but the souls of the pure.</p>