She sat down at the table behind us towards the end of our Thursday night writing session and when A couldn’t take his eyes off her lower back I had to follow his gaze. My eyes stuck as well as my mind as I wondered what it meant. I asked if he thought she’d let me take a picture, but as time wore on and we packed to leave, I hadn’t shown the bravery to ask. So he did.

She told us it started when she went to the dentist(whose name reportedly was Roger Rabbit) and they forgot to shut off her laughing gas when they left her alone unexpectedly. She relaxed and things got foggy and then He came to her.

She talked to God.

He offered to tell her the secrets of life, though he couldn’t tell her everything at once so he started with this: Be Unafraid.

“Wait, wait” she said, “about death, what’s the deal?” There’s a beat in the conversation. “It’s like living, but better. It’s like going down one of those giant plastic tube slides in a potato sack” to which she replied “oooh I like those…they’re fun.” Then he started telling her something about photons but it all went over her head and he had to go suddenly because the dentist came back.

Funny thing how her conversation with God and his wisdom became a permanent etching on her body…because she’s an Atheist.