The Five Wounds
Short story about a man who plays Jesus in a passion play and his relationship with his pregnant teen-age daughter .
Kirstin Valdez Quade's Amadeo builds the cross out of heavy rough oak instead of pine, studs it with nails for extra weight. This is no silky-haired, honey-eyed Jesus-of-the-children. Amadeo is pockmarked and bad-toothed, hair shaved close to a scarred scalp. You name the sin, he's done it.