Carol Hightshoe

God has spent eons tending galaxies, balancing gravity, and coaxing new stars into being. When They return to Earth, Their first experiment with the dangerous gift of free will, the world is almost unrecognizable. Temples have gift shops. Libraries reduce the classics to sixty-second experiences. Leaders protect their procedures, scholars debate while wisdom slips away, and faith too often becomes another weapon.
Somewhere along the way, humanity seems to have lost the key to becoming better. Searching for answers, God visits the halls of power, academia, religion, and the crowded streets of a modern city. What They find is smaller than a commandment and more difficult than a miracle: a meal shared without ceremony, a stranger noticed, and an ordinary person choosing kindness when no one is watching. Never Finished is a warm, sharply satirical speculative story about human foolishness, stubborn mercy, and the possibility that the world may not be repaired by one grand act, but by people choosing, again and again, to make it a little more bearable.