(Francis Rose speaking)


God sees Daryl from far away. His hands and feet are too big for his skinny body. His hair always looks dirty, even when it's wet from a shower. He sat in desks that were too small for his long legs. After high school, he worked in the factory making "Here's My Heart" cologne, slowly killing his sense of smell. Under his dirty hair, behind his diminishing nose, he is paralyzed. Anyone can see that, from any distance. Even God.


All those strands of cause and effect tie objects together-people, time, places. That's how God, the first cause, set it up. But from that distance he can't see the strings and sequences anymore. Just the skinny legs under the place mat sized desk, just the big hands. Daryl's paralyzed inside and no one knows why.



Daryl can only safely be seen from far away. The closer you get the faster you fall. Rage feeds on itself until it gets so dense it generates gravity. That's how she got pulled in.

God sees Daryl from far away.
how she got pulled in