All the Missing Pieces

by Catherine Cowles

“It wasn’t that light-your-soul-on-fire love. It was comfortable love,” I admitted. “You deserve that burn-everything-to-the-ground love.”

“It’s easy to do when you’ve seen the evil out there,” I told Celia. “It just means we have to hold onto the good that much more. The only thing that can cast out darkness is light.”

“Who. The. Hell. Did. This. To. You?”