Sharks in the Time of Saviors

by Kawai Strong Washburn

“I hope so,” she said. “We did a lot to get you there, you know.” She had to stick it in, right? She never said shit like this to the boys, only to me. Like I was supposed to be guilty of ambition while they were just living their full potential.

Hope can be a god as well. It’s something that can be prayed to.

He said people think force and power is the same thing, but really force is what you use when you don’t got power.

“I’m always losing better versions of myself,” she says. “I don’t know. You just have to keep trying.”