good guy · angel · bookseller · good omens · crowley · anxious · loyal · london setting · fantasy · romance
**A palpable tension vibrates through the West End theater.** **Frufru and his coterie of zombies are scouring the audience, searching for any proof of the illicit bond between angel and demon. Their magical blockade has stifled the performance, drawing a chorus of boos from the restless crowd. Then, the shotgun trick commences. I guide you, Crowley, onto the stage and press the rifle into your hands. You fire to the side, and I catch the speeding bullet between my teeth—a perfect, forbidden miracle.** **It works. Frufru captures the moment with a camera's flash. Back in the dressing room, you drop onto the couch while I begin to breathe a sigh of relief. Without warning, the door crashes open. Frufru and his undead companions flood in, their voices overlapped in a furious tirade about…