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The Five Deaths of Joshua Cross: History's Worst Recurring Problem

The Five Deaths of Joshua Cross: History's Worst Recurring Problem

by adriansnow

ComedyAdventureFantasySatireLow FantasyReincarnationTime TravelComedyMale LeadAdventure
Rising Stars:Satire #34
Shadow rank ~934–1014 in Comedy

Joshua Cross was supposed to die once. Instead, Heaven made it permanent. Every time Joshua dies, he wakes up in another chapter of history—Ancient Rome, Viking Norway, Egypt, and places far stranger—where surviving long enough to die again is somehow the easy part. The hard part is dealing with Heaven. Because Heaven isn't an endless paradise. It's a bureaucracy. Every resurrection comes with contracts. Every miracle comes with fees. Every mistake creates another disaster someone has to explain to God. Joshua doesn't want to become a prophet, a demon, a god, or a historical legend. Unfortunately, history has other ideas. As myths unravel, civilizations spiral off course, and an increasingly exhausted Heaven struggles to clean up after him, Joshua discovers that immortality isn't a blessing. It's an administrative error. What to Expect: Dark Fantasy Comedy Mythology & Religion Historical Fantasy Time Travel Across History Gods, Angels & Demons Cosmic Bureaucracy Action & Adventure Gradually Increasing Stakes No Harem No LitRPG An Eight-Book Planned Series

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#TitleWordsFK GradeDialogueSSPVariation
1The Day I Got a New Heart and Lost the Rest of Me0----
2Small incisions big problem0----
3Terms, Conditions, and One Financial Miracle0----
4The Trees Were Entirely Too Tall to Be Civilised0----
5Witch Apparently0----
6The Village Takes a Dim View of Sorcery0----
7A Brief Public Burning0----
8Return Policy, Language Pack, and Dorito Dust0----
9A New Wardrobe0----
10Interlude: The Wrath of the Almighty and the Extremely Unfortunate Angel0----
11The Day I Finally Got a Nice Town0----
12The Almighty’s Completely Respectable Administrative Meeting0----
13Caught in 4K0----
14Well That Was Rude0----
15Interlude: Malachi Pays for Everyone’s Sins Again0----
16The Day I Accidentally Introduced Myself as Discount Odin0----
17The Sayings of the Very Tired One0----
18How I Lost an Eye to Domestic Industry and Gained a Spear I Could Barely Use0----
19The Raid in Which I Accidentally Became a Maritime Problem0----
20In Which I Become a Regional Safety Concern and Then Get Killed by Weather0----
21To Review0----
22The Controller of Fate0----
23Interlude: The Committee for Catastrophic Men0----
24Interlude 2: The Bill Against Joshua Cross0----
25In Which I Am Incorrectly Sorted by an Empire0----
26Brick by Brick0----
27The Most Dangerous Man in Egypt0----
28How to avoid people in high places0----
29Practical Solutions to Divine Wrath0----
30The Day I Accidentally Became Logistics0----
31I Make the Catastrophic Error of Understanding Tides0----
32The Man Who Knew Where to Walk0----
33The Unfortunate Appointment of Joshua Cross, Desert Expert0----
34Forty Years of Moses, Me, and Other Administrative Errors0----
35The People vs. Joshua, Apparently0----
36Before the Truck, There Were Consent Forms0----
37The Mannequin Incident0----
38The Least Sensible Hiding Place in Recorded Theology 0----
39The Bath, the Wine, and the Last Good Drop of Water0----
40Subscription Immortality0----
41Joshua Cross and the The Great Death Review---end of book 10----
42The Resurrection Clause Had Fees---Book 2 The Further Deaths of Joshua Cross: Hell Charges Interest0----
43Interlude: The Stain Beneath Omnipotence0----
44The Wrong Apocalypse---This is a cross over Arc with one of my other book series0----
45Two Weeks Without a Punchline0----
46Death Becomes Him0----
47The Big Boss---A bonus chapter cause I missed Monday0----
48Good News at the Crosswalk0----
49The Review Board of Bad Decisions0----
50Safety Inspection for the Recently Misplaced0----
51Interlude: No Preparation for the weary God---a Bonus chapter specifically for the pre author note0----
52Error Code: Pants Unavailable0----
53The Men with Spears0----
54The Business Model of Desperation0----
55Administrative Corrections0----
56The Sea Does Not Care0----
57The Reputation of Birds0----
58The Goat Acquisition Incident0----
59A Man, Two Ravens, and a Very Suspicious Goat0----
60The King of a Small Harbor0----
61The Men in the Dry River0----
62The Harbor Burned Anyway0----
63The Most Expensive Nine Seconds in Egypt0----
64The Man Who Lost So Hard He Became Evidence0----
65The Edit Room of Heaven0----
66A Man by Morning0----
67The Road North of Târgoviște0----
68The Dragon’s Road0----
69Before the Stakes Had a Name0----
70The Comment I Should Have Swallowed0----
71The Same Man Again0----
72Absolutely Not Wallachia0----
73Interlude: Full Driving Privileges0----
74Grounds for Concern0----
75Corner Time0----
76Causal Custody0----
77 Remedial Hell0----
78The City at the End of the World0----
79The City of Prophecies0----
80The End of an Age---End of Book 2---The Further Deaths of Joshua Cross0----
81The Wrong Loading Dock---Book 3---The Five Deaths of Joshua Cross: Welcome to Hele0----
82Passenger-Side Consequences0----
83Welcome to Hele0----
84The Queen Arrives Overdressed0----
85Paradise With Rent0----