Unlatched

Book 3 of What Was Ordained.

Home is smaller than Japan. Dating men still feels like a box step. She begins to unhook the latch — first in private, then in rooms she cannot bring to her mother’s table. Attraction, experiment, a life that is finally loud in the body. The gospel does not leave her; she walks out from under its roof with it still in her mouth. The door stands open. She steps through.