What could be a better example of free will, you might think, than pausing, turning, raising your arm and reaching for this book? Yet, dear reader, you’ll never know how much planning went into having this slim volume not just in the right shop, ready for the day you, passing, stopped and browsed, but on that shelf, in that position, where yours eyes would fall upon it as if by chance. For, dear reader, everything’s fate in retrospect and you may think that you chose me but, darling reader, I chose you.
Mark Kirkbride
Mark Kirkbride is the author of The Plot Against Heaven, Game Changers of the Apocalypse (a semi-finalist in the Kindle Book Awards 2019) and Satan’s Fan Club.