scrabble with god

From John Ford, "Scrabble with God" (linked from here)

I don't recommend playing with God. It isn't that he cheats, exactly. But the other night we were in the middle of a game, I was about thirty points up, and He emptied out his rack. ZWEEGHB. Double word score and the fifty-point bonus.

"Zweeghb?" I said.

"Is that a challenge?"

"Well..." If you challenge God and you're wrong, you lose the points and get turned into a pillar of salt.

"Look outside," He said. So I did. Sure enough, there was a zweeghb out there, eating the rosebushes, like Thurber's unicorn.

"I thought you rested from creating stuff."

"Eighth day, I did. Now I'm fresh as a daisy. You going to pass or play?"