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