Douglass Sullivan-Gonzalez

God's Scorekeeper and Other Stories

Fiction

“Drawing on more than three decades of pastoral work, Frank looks deep into the conflicts of the human soul that work themselves out in the mistrustful and backbiting world we humans create daily. We sense the slipups of the tongue that wound, the boorish choices that hurt family and stranger, and the premeditated wishes that threaten the feigned harmony among neighbors and community leaders. Yet grace emerges, if but for a second, in a smile, in a prayer, even in the boundaries established in difficult conversations. Frank's stories come alive and we await the end of each narrative to play with the prescient hint of life itself. God's Scorekeeper is an act of grace, a reaffirmation of faith, and a metaphor of hope.”