Episode 3157: "AN ANGELIC FOLLY" AND "THE FERMENTED SAVIOR" by Peter Prizel

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An Angelic Folly by Peter Prizel

Jacob Monger, a social worker at a hospice, has just been through a painful divorce and is having his two young daughters overnight for the first time. He is eager to succeed with his visit, but he must also attend to Tony, a hospice patient and Vietnam Veteran, who has a penchant for collecting records and playing Mozart’s The Requiem. Tony is actively dying and is trying to settle unfinished business with his own children. Jacob’s efforts to help his patient make peace with his situation before his death are made more difficult by the Arch Angel Gabriel, who is having his own qualms with his Father. As punishment for disobeying Him, Gabriel is confined to the magical heavenly chariot of Ezekiel, whose tires he must constantly replace with the souls of humans—those who have been errant fathers—to keep it running.

Peter Prizel is an end-of-life care social worker. He recently received his MFA from Manhattanville College. He has published several poems and short stories. When not at work or spending time with his family, Peter can be found at museums or in some foreign country hunting for new ideas.

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The Fermented Savior by Peter Prizel

Marie Martin is a young girl who is the daughter of two vineyard workers at Baron Rothchild’s estate, which once housed Marie Currie’s lab, causing the soil to become radioactive and magical. After the Baron leaves for Great Britain due to his Jewish origins, Marie’s family is left to run the estate occupied by the Germans. While the Baron is gone, she discovers that grapes are magical and that the ones in the “white” vineyard are pro-Nazi and those in the “purple” vineyard are Jewish. The purple grapes reveal that if made into wine, they can convince those who drink them that the Jews should not be persecuted.
Günter Adler is the son of a viticulturalist who worked with the Baron as his business partner in Germany before the war. Drafted into the Wehrmacht along with his father Heinz Adler, Günter finds himself helping Marie harvest the Jewish grapes to help the Jewish populace while simultaneously being under pressure to supply wine for the German Luftwaffe at Göring’s orders.

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