Filling the Void

A devout man. An ordered life. A hollow that prayer cannot fill.On his forty-ninth birthday, he goes to daily Mass looking for quiet. What he finds instead is her: younger, European, unapologetic in a black dress that follows every curve. One glance and the ache that has lived behind his sternum finally has a shape.He tells himself he will only look. Then he follows. From the pew to the street, fr...