Love Comes Into Our Sight
The Things We Leave Behind anthology, Chicken House Press, April 2022
Shortlisted in Blank Spaces Magazine’s first writing contest, we meet Cael, a fallen angel who considers what he might leave behind for love.
Jennifer’s angel stories are partly inspired by the poem “Touched by an Angel” by Maya Angelou.
One moment he was not there, and then he was, naked in the middle of the street, early on a cold December morning.
He stood so calmly, so still, like nothing at all was wrong. I remember my first instinct was to look away, avoid him, not get involved. But then a car screeched to a halt, and a red face yelled through the window, “Get out of the way, you freak!”