Spare Time’s Reviews > Poor Deer > Status Update

he was sobbing freely as he ran back up the riverbank in bounding leaps, with Margaret in his arms, and even though as it turns out he had fractured both of his ankles instead of spraining them, he ran like a man unburdened, because God had just given him the chance to make up for the day of the schoolyard flood. Step by step he was freeing himself from the guilty burden of his old sin.

He looked at the other girl and thought: This girl is spotlessly clean. She's an ordinary, forgettable, very mediocre sort of girl who will never take a single risk in life. When she grows up she will work in the mill. She will never leave town. She will die alone in her bed, in the house where she was born. This first girl, though? The one with the mud in her hair? This girl is going places —
^they are 4 mind you