A Head Full of Ghosts

by Paul Tremblay

She said, “He’ll ask to deliver us from an unprovided death and deliver us from earthquakes and storms and plague and famine and war. Those prayers have never worked, have never stopped those things from happening. They won’t now and they never will. And I don’t see what any of these prayers have to do with helping me. These prayers are designed for you, Merry. To make you think his God controls all things, especially you.”