The Rapture Index
A Suburban Bestiary
Published on 14. May 2019
170 pages
978-1-942683-83-4 (ISBN)
Description
Loosely based on the medieval bestiary, The Rapture Index examines the relationship between animals, humans, and storytelling. Harnessing the bestiary's combination of religious parable, encyclopedia, and artifice, Molly Reid journeys deep into suburbia to reveal characters struggling to fulfill the expectations of society and family while indulging their baser desires. Filled with moments of curiosity, misunderstanding, fervor, and heart, these stories offer a new twist on familiar landscapes where the wilderness has been tamed (sometimes just barely) but our own animal nature cannot be.
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Molly Reid's debut collection of stories, The Rapture Index: A Suburban Bestiary, won the seventh annual BOA Short Fiction Prize. Her stories have appeared on NPR and in the journals TriQuarterly, Crazyhorse, The Pinch, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Redivider, and The Normal School, among others. She has received fellowship and residency support from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Millay Colony for the Arts, the Anderson Center, the Ucross Foundation, I-Park, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is currently a PhD student at the University of Cincinnati, at work on a novel. For more information about Molly Reid, please visit mollyjeanreid.com.
Content
Happy You're Here
BESTIARY I: The Neighbor's Bees
The Permutations of A
BESTIARY II: Suburban Fox
Dog Story
BESTIARY III: Attic Raccoon
The First Location
Anatomy is Destiny
BESTIARY IV: Steller's Jay
Apocalypso
BESTIARY V: Chimney Swifts
3D Printing: A Love Story
Summer People
BESTIARY VI: One Hamster
Adventures in Wildlife
Fall From Grace
All Men
The Rapture Index
BESTIARY VII: Laundromat Bobcat
Come Closer
BESTIARY VIII: The Alligators
BESTIARY I: The Neighbor's Bees
The Permutations of A
BESTIARY II: Suburban Fox
Dog Story
BESTIARY III: Attic Raccoon
The First Location
Anatomy is Destiny
BESTIARY IV: Steller's Jay
Apocalypso
BESTIARY V: Chimney Swifts
3D Printing: A Love Story
Summer People
BESTIARY VI: One Hamster
Adventures in Wildlife
Fall From Grace
All Men
The Rapture Index
BESTIARY VII: Laundromat Bobcat
Come Closer
BESTIARY VIII: The Alligators
