He balled up the pillow under his head and sank his face into it. It was warm and pleasant against his skin. He ignored the noise as it continued hammering against his ears. It had gotten louder as it persisted, strange and urgent, but meaningless to him. Like the Dewitt’s abominable dalmadoodle next door,Continue reading “Part 2, Chapter 1 // Though I Make My Bed In Sheol”
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Exactly what I want to hear.
When I was in eighth grade, my mom gave me a book for Christmas that changed my life. At Home in Mitford, by Jan Karon. It’s unlikely that I was in Ms. Karon’s target audience, seeing as the protagonist of her bestselling Mitford series is a sixty-something Episcopalian clergyman with a penchant for sherry, meatloaf,Continue reading “Exactly what I want to hear.”