The Great Divide

by Cristina Henríquez

Lucille had never heard anyone talk that way, so open and pleading it was almost like he had come to show her a wound, an aching spot in himself that he was hoping she would tend.

What happened to a person as they were taken from one world to the next? Did you feel it? What was that moment of leaving like? What was every moment after that like?

But she was only herself, and try as she might, she could not manage to be any other way. 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.

But what if delivering that truth is what the Lord was waiting on, the path fully cleared, and as soon as Millicent knew it, He would unhitch Millicent from this world and guide her into the next?

It was easier, Francisco had learned, to live in a world of delusion, which was after all not so different from hope, than to stand face-to-face with the truth.