Transcendence and dissolution, always the same thing.

“Do you see? The story I have to tell is so small, of the people who stayed when…”

“There are no words for so much loss, not right after it happens.”

“These cords that God makes, Reverend Bauxite thought, we stand holding one end …”

“The war could kill the faith in him, too, if he was not strong or careful enoug…”