Second Son

<p>He is just one of many in the refugee camp: an old man his wife dead compelled to revisit the past. Unfortunately what he finds is what he had known all along.</p><p><em>It is the only story there is ever since God looked with favour on Abel and not on Cain: Jacob have I loved Esau have I hated; Ishmael is sent out into the desert while Isaac becomes the heir; Solomon's older brother must die before he can be born to rule. The first-born dies the second inherits: he should not have been surprised. Inherits what? I never thought to ask.</em></p><p>It was never going to be easy being Jesus’s younger brother especially when the woman you love only has eyes for him. Just ask Judas the Second Son.</p>