72 Hour Hold
By Bebe Moore Campbell
Published in 2005
“Right before the devastation, I had a good day. God should have pulled my coattail then and there: `Enjoy this while you can, honey, because Satan beat me in a poker game last night, and he’s claiming you and yours sometime soon.’ After all the praying and tithing I’ve done, I deserved a heads-up. Damn. Whatever happened to sending a sign? Lean cow, fat cow. Burning bush. Dove with an olive branch. Yoo-hoo! Something.”
Suggested by Ruth Fulton, Berkeley
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