The Great Divide

by Cristina Henríquez

a person needed faith to be able to see things that did not exist, to imagine a world not yet made.

There were times she longed to be different, but she guessed everyone felt that way at one time or another, and so in wanting to be different, everyone was the same.

What he saw as he stared across that vast chasm was not simply a canal, but a great divide that would sever Panamá in two.