Enforcers

“Have I told you my greatest sin, the one that keeps me standing outside heaven’s door?” She crept closer, lowering herself into the shallows, and sprung up, drenching my white dress shirt and laughing in a way I never thought she could. “I’ve always wanted to have it all.”

As we chased each other back and forth in the slow waves at sundown, we were the richest of them all, shut from the pearly gates, still ignorant of how indeed the camel got through the eye of the needle.