Beneath the Lion's Gaze

He promised us no more floods, but I pray every day for a deluge to wash this all away.”

Both of us will stop grieving for those who are happier with God.

It’s a curse. See that dark lining at the ends? Satan’s setting heaven on fire.”

man with a mouth open to the moon.

Her grief knew no refuge, found no shelter.

Yonas could see, even in this vacant stare, the last traces of the little boy’s wide-eyed curiosity.

He forced himself to keep his gaze away from the body, away from more tangible evidence that there was no God, that all his life he and this boy had prayed to nothing

ONE DAY, HE would tell his father this: that the eyes die first, that we make our way to dust and ash blindly.

What he didn’t say was that now there were two people lost to them, and that if there was a God, maybe they’d finally found each other.

The day Communists stop wanting their American jeans, then we can talk about exploitation.”