OptionalFiction

The first paragraph suddenly came to me and I was completely taken with the idea. It was very difficult to find an ending for it though. Though I'm not religious, the Epicurean Paradox has been in the back of my mind for a long time (How can there be Evil if God is omniscient, omnipotent, and Good). I think it's an interesting problem and I especially like the explanation of an Oblivious God that has forgotten Their power and Godhood, but still carries them inside Themselves. Westworld season three had an excellent subplot in that vain. That was also my original idea for God to live it up in Vegas and the protagonist trying to get God to get Their shit together. But because I didn't have an actual plan I let my writing take me where it went. God pretty quickly revealed Herself (or acknowledged Her identity) and my original idea went out the window. Then I tried to force some metaphor between God's plan and Her card tricks. I don't think I really succeeded, especially with Her just vanishing at the end and leaving a dumb punchline on the card. But maybe She wasn't God, but just some con artist prick. I've done card tricks myself so that was easy enough to imagine, but I've never been to Vegas. Everything I know about Fermont Street I learned from this video which I skimmed for this story today.