THE HOPELING

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(50 51 56 1)>Ipsa hates reading prayers.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(50 51 56 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(50 51 56 1)>Unfortunately that's the eternal task she's been assigned.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(50 51 56 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(50 51 56 1)>An angel in the Prayer Reading Department Ipsa must read and sort a never-ending flood of earthly requests before delivering them to the mysterious Answering Department. Unlike other prayer readers Ipsa finds most humans-known as hopelings-annoying and their prayers forgettable.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(50 51 56 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(50 51 56 1)>Until she stumbles upon one prayer she's not supposed to read.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(50 51 56 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(50 51 56 1)>Its cryptic message sparks her curiosity. Ipsa can't understand why she feels so drawn to its sender a fourteen-year-old boy living in the aftermath of a school shooting. As she searches for clues to help him she uncovers a host of secrets that lead to an unsettling question: Why are so many prayers going unanswered?</span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>