Title: Rites of passage
First published: 1972
Description: From back cover Bard paperback August 1973:

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A young boy who wants a surrogate father so desperately that he is willing to do anything to please him -- even murder... A baritone who makes a strange discovery about the music he's singing and the people singing with him... A young wife who tries to escape a grim nightmare from the past... An anthropologist who finds himself trapped by power towers... An old woman who uses blackmail to fight loneliness...
Subjects: Initiation rites, Short stories