I never loved Jesus I just loved singing. The way my body filled with adrenaline at the sight of a choir of candles. The deep sadness of wailing chords and the fire of my brain's holy spirit. The serious intonations of a preacher speaking without thinking of anything other than leadership, speaking about ears to hear, speaking about the blind leading the blind.

Was he a good man? I suppose he tried to be and I doubt I would ever have directly murdered someone who was trying to be a good man. That's why I left him. That's why none...

"And, did he ever touch you inappropriately?"

Sarah paused her story for a moment, growing red in the face. "What?"

"Did he ever touch you, it's okay, you're not alone. This office is a safe place."

"Why would you even ask?" Sarah nearly yelled in her surprise.

"Look, I get a lot of patients coming through here and I just want them to know that they can talk to me freely. It would be statistically plausible that he touched you at one point."

"It would?"

"Yes, look, I have your breast interests in mind."

"Well... maybe, I dunno."

"He probably...

"Hello, is this, uh, Mary?"

"Maybe."

"Oh, uh, well I saw your ad and I just thought maybe I had what you're looking for."

"What makes you say that?"

"Well, it just that, uh, I've been working out and, uh, I think I have an okay face and, uh. I can be real mean in bed and stuff."

"What's your name, stranger?"

"My name is, uh, John, and, uh, I'm like 6'3'' and muscular and stuff."

"Well, 'John,' if I was to meet you somewhere, would you be interested in a little... action?"

"Uh, yeah! I mean, that's what I...

"You know why girls suddenly change their hairstyles don't you?" He leered over my sister with that gap-toothed smug-motherfucker grin. "Girls change their hair every time they make a major change in life. Like pigtails right before or right after a break-up. Females actually believe this changes them as a person."

My sister giggled, which is my favorite part, right before she undid the top two buttons on her blouse, which is my least favorite part. "You're so right," she said. She kissed him, hard, right before she saw me peeking under the door.

She scowled at me, but she...

"His thoughts are too scattered, just give him a moment to collect." This advice within the high pitched laugh of a well-meaning mother. The tour guide had simply meant to ask her son a simple question, how could the guide know that the son had no intention of answering?

"Well." The guide sputtered, looking for a simpler way to ask the stubborn child with almond eyes if he liked the zoo. Finding nothing suitable, he reached into the cage behind him and pulled out a red snapper. "Here, hold it."

The child held his hands out and mewed with delight....