Between Two Fires

by Christopher Buehlman

“Don’t cry for the thing. It’s just junk.” “I’m not crying for that.” “Jesus, what then?” “Just for a moment. I saw it.” “You saw what?” “Your soul.” “Souls are invisible.” “Not always.”

“She was tempted by something stronger than her. Adam was tempted by a weaker creature. Or so we are told. If Eve was his inferior, his sin was greater. You can’t have it both ways.”

Love is always harder. Love means weathering blows for another’s sake and not counting them. Love is loss of self, loss of other, and faith in the death of loss.