felix_andrade

Brilliant. Quite a thoughtful bit of writing and not without some moments of epic carnage. One of my favorite passages: "Temple speaks. She tells the woman that she has done bad things - things God would not like - and that sometimes she wonders if God could be angry at her, and if she would know the difference between a blessing and a punishment because the world is wondrous even when your stomach is empty and there is dried blood in your hair. She tells of how you have a special amazement for all the beauty in the world when you are evil like she is - probably because beauty and evil are on the opposite sides of a wall like lovers who can never really touch. She tells of the people she has killed, she lists the names for the ones she knows and describes the others, but she can’t remember them all, and she knows she shouldn’t forget things like that and she would write them down except that she can’t read or write because when she was supposed to be learning her letters she was busy hiding in a drainage ditch because her foster home got eaten up by meatskins."

2022-11-14 17:14