Month: April 2011

Does it ever get easier?

“Does the life of faith ever get easier?” asked the student. “It must get easier as you move through life’s stages.” The white-haired teacher laughed. “No, no. It only gets harder. Faith is a knife, and its job is to cut. Why would it stop cutting? That would mean it was dead. There’s always one […]

The Wedge

Not yet conscious, not yet human, but headed in that direction. They worked you up in a glorious reeking haze, dulled senses unfeeling, and there you go. You were not planned, and neither was the act. Can’t kick yet and can’t tell her you’ve come because at this point, she could just be late. In […]