We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.

“I didn’t want to be prideful anymore. I wanted to be as hard as and brittle as …”

“I thought that love was a river, endless and deep. I thought it merely happened…”

“This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things chan…”

“Only her death could prove her innocence; a circle of impossible, deathly judge…”