And Introducing: a new baby

Here's my newest latest Nano thing. I am loving the writing of it. Totally loving it. Well, that's not entirely truthful. Sometimes I hate it, but... then I love it again. (I do have those days.)

PAPA LEGBA AND THE SABBATH QUEEN

PAPA LEGBA AND THE SABBATH QUEEN recasts the Sabbath Queen as a young insolent teen who rebels against the status quo. Only difference being that Daddy is The Ineffable One, the He/She who has no End, a.k.a God. Daddy isn't keen on Maya’s mystical persuasions and kaballah interests. She runs off and meets Papa Legba, voodoo gatekeeper from the dark and fertile land of Haiti, and they flirt like hell, take in libations and a sacrifice the way you’d take in dinner and a movie.

When Daddy catches her messing around with this Papa guy he banishes her down to earth to live with a nice boring Jewish family in the suburbs of Philadelphia, strips her of her powers. But you can be sure she's going to go get mystical and somehow find Papa Legba no matter the odds. And Papa’s going to banish himself in sympathy, drag himself to a land he knows nothing about, America, and work his way up in the bowels of the kitchen and against all number of odds—Aids, prejudice, poverty—to reclaim her.

It’s a poker game, the stakes higher than the clouds in heaven and more turbulent than the storms at sea, with all the relatives putting in their two cents-- Moses, Abraham and Rachel, Iwa, Erzulie and Papa Ghe. And the angels working overtime You can’t keep star-crossed deities from the most mystical experience of all-- love.