Bible Stories for AdultsI picked up a number of Morrow’s books a few years ago.  Its been a somewhat slow summer for reading, and I decided to revisit one of these.

This is a collection of short stories, many dealing with themes both Biblical and moral: A robot reconstructs the shards of the Ten Commandments, and faces an enormous decision; Job finds himself back on the garbage heap (along with Mother Courage, apparently), ready for another round with God;  Ebenezer Scrooge learns the evil consequences of his own newfound charity.  Perhaps the best story in the collection is “Story #20: The Tower”, where God reflects on the success of His intervention at Babel, and comes up with a new twist to chastize humankind.

Morrow is definitely working through some of his own issues here, but his short fiction is pithy and entertaining.