Foreword Reviews

God in Real Life

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accepts my collect calls & man, do I gab! Phone-coils wrapped around prayer hands, I ask Do horrible things have thoughts before they happen? Do they yell “Stop, you people!” & try to arrange everyone back in their assigned seats? God showed up in the form of a chick I wanted to hold. The chick grew a beak with teeth & they pecked my hand to shreds that reminded me of pet bedding in a cage. I felt guilty in that moment for all the hamsters I ever forgot to feed. Everyone yelled kill it! & I almost wanted to — one snap & it’d be lint dirtying the floor. But I let us both cry out, because wasn’t it me who wanted to hold the creature to begin with?

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