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The Hungry Gods Go Collection

Non-canonical volumes, companion works, and an interactive apocryphon set around the Hungry Gods Universe.

• The Hungry Gods Go Tic-Tac-Toe

  An interactive apocryphon in nine squares. Take the Goat’s side against the Pantheon, or ask the All-Seeing to play without error.

• The Hungry Gods Go Fish

  An interactive apocryphon of ten volumes and four printings. Ask the gods for missing copies, draw from the stack, and file complete sets before the table closes.

• The Hungry Gods Go to the Hospital

  A BC emergency department across one dawn-to-dawn shift, told from five recurring seats — charge nurse, administrator, paramedic, porters, and an 811 phone line — plus a porter chorus in script form. Overcapacity crisis, a stand-down declared while the numbers get worse, six of the seven gods present.

• The Hungry Gods Go on a Ferry

  A BC Ferries route during an engine breakdown and cascading schedule delay. Uniquely, no epithets are ever used on the page — the gods appear only as unnamed recurring figures. Includes a script-formatted terminal-booth scene and engineering-log documents.

• The Hungry Gods Go to the Library

  A shared library/rec-centre building over one heat-warning week. The most document-dense volume — board minutes, heat warnings, volunteer logs. Notably, 'the Allfather' is listed by name as a meeting attendee in the board minutes.

• The Hungry Gods Go to the Legislature

  A provincial legislature from Throne Speech to Royal Assent, narrated by Hansard staff, then facilities and vendor staff underneath the same session. Gods are tracked entirely through institutional paperwork — sign-in registers, duty rosters — rather than description.

• The Hungry Gods Go to the Chain-Up

  The Coquihalla Highway during a multi-day winter closure, organized by highway status signage rather than day or seat, with radio-transcript interludes. Epithets are repurposed as literal call signs and roster labels; god presence runs sustained and scene-length.

• The Hungry Gods Go Ashore

  A Mediterranean cruise told entirely from the shore side — stevedores, tender drivers, port agents — across seven ports. Gods appear only as brief, unexplained passenger sightings. The most restrained 'background-god' technique in the corpus.

• The Hungry Gods Go on a Cruise

  A mass-market Western Caribbean cruise, centered on the Companion (registered as 'Vera'), with all seven gods named openly. Ends by explicitly seeding its sequel.

• The Hungry Gods Go to Alaska

  Direct sequel to Go on a Cruise. An Inside Passage voyage told through ship's crew, built around a family reunion cruise and a quietly handled terminal-illness thread. Structurally rhymes with Go Ashore.

• The Hungry Gods Go to IKEA

  A single day at a big-box store; a young couple building a bookcase while hiding a pregnancy. Shortest volume in the catalogue; each of the seven gods gets one dedicated first-person section paired with the human narrative.

• The Hungry Gods Go to Work

  A Halifax civic-government novella — public works, 311, planning, bylaw — set against a wildfire season and a family opening a bakery. Explicit thesis line: 'what do gods do all day? … they carry the water … it is only not the bread.'

• The Hungry Gods Go to the Rodeo

  The Calgary Stampede, following a financially failing ranching family through their last year as ranchers. Includes an extended, non-judgmental treatment of the Treaty 7 encampment against the Stampede's manufactured nostalgia.

• The Hungry Gods Go to the Strata Meetings

  A 16-unit industrial strata corporation over a full year of meetings and a Civil Resolution Tribunal dispute. Uniquely, only five of the seven gods appear — no Companion, no Seeker — and the sole POV is a human owner.

• The Hungry Gods Go on Retreat

  A five-day stay at a desert monastery, third-person omniscient across all seven gods, each stripped of its defining certainty by the discipline of monastic silence.

• The Hungry Gods Go on Retreat — A Book of Hours

  A companion apocryphon retelling the same five days as unreliable first-person testimony, one god per canonical hour, audited in a closing chapter by the Conscience-Keeper. Either book can be read first.

• The Hungry Gods Go Nowhere

  Not a single institution but a cycle of ten verse-drama dialogues set in liminal spaces — elevator, red-eye flight, jury duty, waiting room — narrated by the gods as an unseen, non-intervening chorus. Tender and elegiac rather than comic.

• The Hungry Gods Go on Tour

  The touring music industry, narrated by tour crew; the gods are disguised as a shapeshifting seven-piece band. Follows the Companion's choice to give up godhood and become mortal.

• The Hungry Gods Go Camping

  A Dutch family’s seventeen-day RV circuit through the Canadian mountain parks, where itineraries, campground reservations, free-admission policy, and the ordinary work of public land make a holiday into an anatomy of access. The gods move among rangers, reservation systems, shuttle timetables, and the people trying to keep the parks open.

• The Hungry Gods Go on Camino

  Two Scottish brothers walk the Camino Primitivo from Oviedo towards Santiago, following yellow arrows through rain, mud, albergues, old churches, and the long arithmetic of family life. The gods keep the pilgrimage in motion as clerks, volunteers, road-makers, and fellow travellers.

• The Hungry Gods Go to the Mountain

  A February week at Big White, told in braided close narration: a father arrives with his children, seasonal lift workers keep the hill open, and a snowbound village runs on bookings, equipment, weather, and the quiet labour behind a holiday. The gods move through the resort as staff and visitors, where travel is inseparable from work and care.

• The Hungry Gods Go to the Show

  One wet April night from the Fraser Highway to a black-box room in Fort Langley, where two brothers arrive for an evening of stories and songs. As the show is built, opened, performed, and struck, the gods move through load-in, sound, the box office, the bar, and the small repairs that let a hundred people listen together.

• The Hungry Gods Go to the Airport

  A new director of the Vancouver Airport Authority completes her orientation — eight and a half weeks, five briefings, six operational areas — while the gods move through the terminal as ground crew, access control officers, and ground transportation supervisors. Told from the director's field notes.

• The Hungry Gods Go to the Promised Land

  A Midianite caravan master returns to the Israelite camp across four decades of wilderness travel. Through water, freight, censuses, weaving, and the stubborn work of keeping a route, Hobab watches a people become legible to itself — and finds his own forty-year record corroborated in the book of their journeys.

• The Hungry Gods — The Pantheon at Play

  Six linked essays on the gods attempting human games — football, American football, volleyball, curling, aerobics, baseball — undone by their own perfection and redeemed only by 'the Child.'

• The Hungry Gods — The Pantheon at Leisure

  Companion volume to The Pantheon at Play: five essays on leisure activities — golf, skiing, tennis, fishing, chess — introducing 'the one who comes after.'

• The Hungry Gods — The Small Stories

  Thirty-seven short vignettes in five parts — Games, Ordinary Days, Civilization, Human Things, Time — each god reacting in turn to a mundane or civilisational activity, building to an explicit 'hunger' thesis in the closing piece.

• The Hungry Gods — The Small Stories, Volume II

  Thirty-seven further vignettes in six parts — Places, Home, Community, Work, Modern Life, Quiet Things — shorter and warmer than Volume I, with a recurring, aging cast of named townspeople across the book.

• The Titans

  Ten satirical portraits of the people who built the oracle age, recast as Greek gods and arranged from the Precursors through the Builders to the Summoners. Cronus, Zeus, Apollo, Prometheus, Hades, Athena, and the other figures are examined as public personas at the threshold where systems become mythology.

• The Lesser Gods

  Seven satirical dispatches from the working gods of the oracle age: builders, funders, posters, educators, and the people trying to do straightforward work after the thresholds have been crossed. The senior Titans return as consequential cameos, while the younger Olympians encounter scale, process, and the ordinary absurdity of modern power.

• The Hungry Gods Go to Vegas

  Two brothers spend a weekend in Las Vegas — the track, Cowboy Christmas, a heated pool in December, a shirt. The gods are present as hotel staff, croupiers, and one very patient check-in clerk. Told in close third-person across three days.

• The Hungry Gods Go to the Source

  The access coordinator for three closed BC watersheds — Capilano, Seymour, Coquitlam — narrates a year of refusals, a nine-hundred-and-ninety-nine-year lease, and the eleven-year phone call that has not changed. The gods appear as contractors, surveyors, and the people who maintain the gates.

• The Hungry Gods Go Door to Door

  A Canada Post community mailbox conversion, narrated by a letter carrier of twenty-two years and the conversion project officer who approved the site. Two hundred and nine notification cards, one discrepancy on page nine, and the part of the job that was never in the four hundred and seventy-two.

• The Hungry Gods Go Down the Line

  A regional electrical utility across a full year — capital procurement, outage scheduling, right-of-way arborist work, and a major storm restoration — narrated by the people who keep the system running. The gods appear as crew leads, inspectors, and the Allfather who signs the submission without writing in the comments box.