All the Names They Used for God

by Anjali Sachdeva

“Lake fishing is just waiting with a pole in your hand,” said Robert.

“You ever meet this slut?” “No. What difference does that make?” “Just sounds like an ugly name to call someone who wanted the same thing you did.”

But she also knew that the part of her that didn’t want to ask for those things was the better part, and so she cleaned the bathroom with bleach water and mowed the lawn and pulled comforters out of boxes to pad the couch and waited without knowing what for.