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Description & Overview
Humorous Fantasy – Urban Fantasy – Workplace Satire
The apocalypse was supposed to be unstoppable. Then a temp worker found the paperwork.
Jason Torres has three problems: a brutal hangover, a dead-end temp job, and absolutely no idea how he ended up inside Hell's Department of End-Stage Metrics & Planetary Liquidation.
He has a fourth problem now.
He accidentally pressed the button that postpones the end of the world.
With seventy-two hours on the clock, Jason does the only thing he knows how to do: fake confidence, weaponize bureaucracy, and exploit every ridiculous loophole he can find. Unfortunately, the demons running Doomsday aren't amused—and the terrifyingly competent Director of Pestilence, Stephanie, has figured out that Jason is lying about being a Senior Auditor.
But Stephanie has a problem of her own. After seven centuries of impossible quotas, endless compliance reviews, and soul-crushing corporate politics, she may be starting to suspect that Jason's chaotic approach works.
Together, a burned-out demon executive, a chronically underqualified human, and one extremely nervous imp begin turning Hell's bureaucracy against itself.
Then a ruthless infernal inspector arrives to expose Jason's fraud.
Now Earth is facing liquidation, Heaven is demanding compliance, Hell is drowning in paperwork, and the only thing standing between humanity and the apocalypse may be a man whose greatest professional skill is making deadlines disappear.
The End of the World and Other Inconveniences is a witty urban fantasy comedy packed with workplace satire, demonic bureaucracy, slow-burn romance, absurdist humor, and a cozy apocalypse unlike any other.
Because sometimes saving the world doesn't require a hero.
Sometimes it just requires someone willing to file the right form.