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God’s Horses

by David Keplinger
Issue #163
Spring 2025
A tiny scarab landed in my hand. I see how this works. God just shrinks smaller and smaller with every chance you let pass, every opportunity to take the message that the horse delivers, “until God arrives as something, in...

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