Category: Sara Bastian

Reborn

by ap | Aug 10, 2022 | Fiction 9, Highlights 9, PREE 9, Sara Bastian | 0 |

After breakfast, we gather in the same circle. Father Longley asks us to open our hearts to God. I close my eyes and imagine his God coming down from a cloudless sky with a scalpel and a dummy swiped from hell for demonstration purposes. Longley’s God would slam the demon onto the floor and our bodies would follow in sync, making the room vibrate.

When We Die

by ap | Apr 22, 2020 | Fiction 5, Issue 5, PREE 5, Sara Bastian | 3 |

SARA BASTIAN

Homecoming is not meant to outlive the holidays. For a homecoming to be respectable, it must cease. We must leave again to seek out something better, a place where the waves will not gulp down buildings. A place where the sea minds its manners and knows not to trespass.