All the Sinners Bleed

by S.A. Cosby

“Terrible people can do good things sometimes. But they like doing the terrible things more.

Sometimes grief is love unexpressed. Other times it’s regret made flesh.

“Evil is rarely complicated. It’s just fucking bold.” Titus touched the brim of his hat and left.

the devil is just the name we give to the terrible things we do to each other,”

if your cousin ain’t a racist, he is mighty goddamn comfortable with being around racists. That’s a distinction without a difference.

“That building over there ain’t the Church. All that is sticks and stones and vinyl siding. The Church is what you and Gene was doing. I might not believe in it, but I can recognize it.

“What if me trying to hold the world together is what keeps me from falling apart?”