A pool game mixes ritual with geometry.

“And you snap out of it. Or are snapped out of it. Never again will you lay a ha…”

“And Meredith says that reminds her of a Camus novel, the one about the plague, …”

“Mother’s particular devils had remained mysterious to me for decades. So had he…”

“In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the…”