(1998) Denial
“Dead things. Not dead people, not corpses, not cadavers, no, please not.
Who were they?
She had not prayed since the second year at Brighton and Hove High. She’d had problems believing in a God who never answered her prayers. Wednesday, 24 November 1979, the date she had got the results of her maths test and learned she had failed.
It was no big deal of a test; God could easily have given her good marks. Instead he had chosen to ignore her prayer the week before. So she had never pr...ayed again. Until now.
Pressing the sides of her hands together, she sank her face into the palms, closed her eyes, even in this absolute darkness, and whispered, ‘Please, God, tell me this is just a bad dream. Give me something, please, just something to help me.’ Parched throat. Her heart aching to understand where she was, and why she was here.
She could smell her urine through the reek of formalin.MoreLess
Who were they?
She had not prayed since the second year at Brighton and Hove High. She’d had problems believing in a God who never answered her prayers. Wednesday, 24 November 1979, the date she had got the results of her maths test and learned she had failed.
It was no big deal of a test; God could easily have given her good marks. Instead he had chosen to ignore her prayer the week before. So she had never pr...ayed again. Until now.
Pressing the sides of her hands together, she sank her face into the palms, closed her eyes, even in this absolute darkness, and whispered, ‘Please, God, tell me this is just a bad dream. Give me something, please, just something to help me.’ Parched throat. Her heart aching to understand where she was, and why she was here.
She could smell her urine through the reek of formalin.MoreLess
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