CarrollBlog 10.12

STORY

by Sabine Miller

Tell me the one about the sick girl — not terminally ill, just years in bed with this mysterious fever — who hires a man to murder her — you know, so the family is spared the blight of a suicide — and the man comes in the night, a strong man, and nothing is spoken —he takes the pillow to her face — tell me how he is haunted the rest of his life — did he or didn't he do the right thing — tell me how he is forgiven, and marries, and has 2 daughters, and is happy — no, tell me she doesn't die, but is cured and gives her life to God, and becomes a hand-holder for men on death row — tell me the one where the man falls in love with the girl and can't do it, or the girl falls in love with a dog and calls the man to tell him not to come, or how each sees their pain mirrored in the other's eyes — tell me how everyone is already forgiven every story they ever told themselves about living or not living — tell me, oh tell me the one where love wins, again and again and again.