Sequoia Coast god loves you, but not enough to save you

the pair sits for a time, dinah’s sobs the only thing that broke their silence. 

and like a storm, those sobs broke too — until it was just the rise and fall of each of their breath. 

did she believe in god?

a knifelike twist of her lips; her family was made in god’s image, but she was something different. and what was a god, if it was not cruel and unjust?

she shook her head in silent no.