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I finished Robert Kroese's Mercury Falls. Hilarious. I was cackling out loud at times. It had a few problems towards the end when it forgot to be hilarious, but a renegade angel by the name of Galileo Mercury, a 37 year-old dickweed of an anti-christ living in his mother's attic, and a popular (some say satanic) YA fantasy series (starring a young wizard) more than made up for it. There were more than few giggles and snorts along the way, as this particular Apocalypse unfolded (or was bungled). Many of the cultural references seemed geared toward the over 40 crowd, so age could very well play a part in whether anyone else finds it funny or not. The jokes just seemed to fall right into my wheel-house.
Some notable short stories I recently read included "Creation" by Jeffrey Ford (as prevously mentioned), Aliette de Bodard's "The Jaguar House, In Shadow", "Eliot Wrote" by Nancy Kress, and Amal El-Mohtar's "The Green Book".
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