Holy Ghost Girl

faith-and-doubt

• Strangers pressed against one another, sweat and breath mingling in a collective desire to be touched by that hand.

  HGG-001

• What began as a misdemeanor charge had escalated into the apocalypse. But then, that's what we expected. Our lives became the twenty-four-hour prayer channel.

  HGG-010

obedience-and-authority

• It is an abomination for a woman to wear that which pertaineth to a man. Not just a sin, but an abomination, she stressed. That meant it was something God hated.

  HGG-007

• Son, you've got to do right. We're supposed to set an example, and here you are burning down barns. And it ain't even our barn.

  HGG-012

trauma-and-survival

• I was desperate for my mother to save herself, to save us.

  HGG-003

• The Waters often locked me out of the house when they left in the morning and didn't open the door again until they returned.

  HGG-013