“Doesn’t that sound like God to you? This big stupid, invulnerable thing that resembles us and whose creations are more intelligent than it is? The Bible left out that part, but it would explain a great deal.”

—  Lucius Shepard

Source: Short fiction, The Skinny Girl (2011), p. 453

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