Small Miracles

by Olivia Atwater

“I’m a champion avoider at this point. I use the small pleasures as distractions, to help me forget all of the things I miss.” Her eyes welled up with tears. “It mostly works, you know. But only when I don’t look too closely.”

“But creation wasn’t made just to despair, Wormwood. There’s an awful lot that’s still going to happen between now and that last, dreadful moment. There are small lives being lived, and small triumphs being had, and small people enjoying their favourite red velvet cupcakes. And all of those small things still have meaning, even if they someday have to end.”