“Some Beginnings”

"Some Beginnings" ritual

God said, have your dominion over the creeping things . . . So I captured a grasshopper and named him Luke.

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“Clean”

"Clean" ritual

Eight years old. Two pairs of bare feet stomped on the dock, stopped for a moment, and sprang — one girl diving perfectly, the other flopping on her belly awkwardly, feeling weighed down by the jealousy of not being allowed to wear a two-piece.

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