I don't understand how humans can hate their offspring enough to torture it — eating me alive as a newborn would have been merciful, this was the opposite of anything resembling mercy. I cried to God for years and begged Him to show Himself to me, to prove Himself real by breaking my arm so I could get a hot pink cast and all my classmates could sign it and I could feel loved. In the purpling pink glow of the sunset I realize only now that God seemed to be the only who seemed to love me then, enough to not hurt me on purpose. He couldn't intervene on Earth, but I've never broken a bone.











