This is The Moth Radio Hour.
I'm Brandon Grant from The Moth, and I'll be your host this time.
In this hour, we bring you four stories about seismic moments and subtle shifts.
An expectant mother finds power in trusting her body.
A young artist follows her heart through divorce.
A woman recalls the impact of a hurricane.
And in our first story, acclaimed Jamaican author Marlon James reflects on his time as a junior exorcist.
A quick note, there is some reference to sexual awakening in this story.
Marlon told this at a Moth main stage in St. Paul, where we partner with Minnesota Public Radio.
Here's Marlon James, live at the Moth.
So it's teenage Christian summer camp, but I'm not a camper, I'm the camp marshal.
And what that usually meant was that whenever there were congregations of people of different genitalia,
I would show up with a ruler and just go, make space for Jesus.
My genius, my genius was that I could appear anywhere.
If somebody with male genitalia ended up anywhere near someone with female genitalia and then move within 11 inches
of each other, I showed up in between and went, make space for Jesus.
Pretty good at this.
But it wasn't until one service where I realized what my true talent was.
It was six o'clock.
It was a second service.