Emergent Consequences (Short of Tyme, #1)

The painter of the universe, known as Life, just wanted to fulfill her reason for being, by creating a universe full of beautiful wonders and living things, but her twin brother, Death, exists solely to destroy her work, leading to an intractable argument about whose work should prevail.
Eventually, Life partially wins the argument and is allowed to make a universe without seeing it immediately destroyed, but she doesn't know well enough to leave things be, leading to emergent consequences as she continually interferes, adding new creations to fix the problems she created, only to see everything balloon out of control, while Death laughs at everything she does...
Emergent Consequences is a short tale that takes a light hearted view of the follies of human nature, as seen through the lens of a pair of extremely fallible creators, whose universe fortunately isn't our own, holding up the mirror of satire, so we can laugh at ourselves.
Come read about their journey and hopefully learn a little about human nature along the way.
Volume one of Short of Tyme. Approximately 13,500 words.

Though he currently calls Liberal, Kansas home, Owen Tyme was born in the California Bay Area. He's come to enjoy the mild climate of Kansas. He's a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Owen prefers to write action-filled science fantasy, though he sometimes writes fantasy or science fiction, when the inspiration takes him there. He loves grounding what he writes in science, even when writing about dragons, witches and wizards.