🎧 The Trouble with Angels — Season 2, Episode 4:The Ways & The Means: By Blood and By Policy (Chapter 13)
This family reunion has everything: carnival lights, laminated schedules, and emotional-support water stations. Michael hauls Gabriel into the loving chaos for a refresher on “humans can be good on purpose”—and immediately they get ambushed by the most powerful being alive: a five-year-old CEO with a clipboard and a Party Pony Rescue plan.
In This Episode (Spoiler-Free)
A county-fair reunion run like an accessibility love letter (and yes, the signage has opinions)
Michael’s proud sibling tour of “humans being decent without making it weird”
Gabriel’s complicated relationship with systems… and what it means when a system is kind
Junie, age five, arriving with quarterly-earnings energy and a mission to save retired party ponies
A reminder that logistics can be tenderness — and tenderness can still carry responsibility
⚠️ Content Advisory
Mentions of afterlife bureaucracy and administrative systems
Emotional undercurrent: grief/nostalgia and complicated family distance (handled with humor + warmth)
Kid chaos (balloon swords, mild screaming, general festival mayhem)
No graphic violence, no gore
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Written & Read by: Glory FinkSound Engineering: Tom FinkOriginal Story Series: Gloryous Magazine on Substack
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