At the Finngail Forest senior living community, residents stage fights to the death on Wednesdays—before nap time. There’s one nurse (definitely not a valkyrie) who’d rather they didn’t. Then she meets Mister Savage.
“Einherjar” appears in Odin: New and Ancient Norse Tales from Flame Tree Press, available in October of 2024 in the UK and November in the US. It’s part of their Myths, Gods, and Immortals series.