Book One: Thou – Mawmouth

Wheel of Fortune

After all, what’s this salvation stuff all about, anyway?

Ellen tested the new urge many times that winter and spring.

“It’s like life is a big fat highway, Ellen . . .”

For all their desire to solve, they’d forgotten about love.

If there is one thing that can save a miserable child’s life, it is a good teacher.

He knew better than to laugh.

She put her hand on the gate and swung it open. Creak.

Nobody watched him develop a sweetness so misty it clouded over his sly ideas.

At night, she dreamt of a white panther with red, filmy eyes that came wandering upstairs.

Would he come after her? If she just disappeared, would it be enough?