Between Two Fires

by Christopher Buehlman

“Don’t rape me,” she said. “It won’t be rape if you agree.” “Yes it will. Because I’ll only agree to avoid being hurt.”

“The plague kills everything. Only the priests who won’t visit the sick have a chance of living.”

I believe God has it within His heart to overlook my overlooking.”

Go on.” So on she went.

What was the difference? Everything served God’s will, and here, at last, after months of senseless deaths and unending tears, was a tragedy that bore some fruit.

Nobody alive wanted them, and the dead didn’t answer.

and God would not or could not interfere.

Please don’t let them die because of me, God.

God wants suffering now.”

“It is only for Christ to raise the dead. And I do not think you are Him.”

“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.”

May God forgive him, since he couldn’t forgive God.

fear of Hell is one of many paths to it. Forget Hell and love one another. That is all He wants of you.