Time Trance of the Gods (Book One)

Book One of Time Trance of the Gods is a collection of stories that move through time with a mingling of mortals and ancient gods. Aphrodite's Option -the first, and longest, story is about power sharing between the sexes. Venal Elias struggles with female domination; dogged by the memory of an over possessive mother, he is pitched into weird events involving gods and ancient spirits borne from the past to the near future. He encounters an ancient matriarchy and the ubiquitous influence of Aphrodite. He is joined by Saul, who is mysteriously moved from London to somewhere in Greece, while Pandora, with her nasty box of tricks, is never far away. But that thin ray of hope still lies at the bottom of her box.Then there are the bizarre events in Fool's Errand, where Barry Fitzgerald meets a motley selection of men and gods on his harrowing quest for gold, after the world's wealth vanishes overnight.
Enjoy Luke the Fluke, a skit on Perseus and the Medusa. And in Loss, meet Dionysos, god of the vine, as he haunts present day Naxos, with Britt, a discontented woman whose life unfolds with tragic echoes of Ariadne, who was abandoned on Naxos by Theseus.
In other tales there are disconcerting glimpses into the future, from the cloned daughters in The Ichor of Ilyus Benz to in, The Memory of Myth, the space flight through a wormhole into another universe, where the gods inhabit a broken city.
Travel with these magical manifestations of man's imagination into my new worlds of equally bizarre enhantment.