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The rains come in the afternoon when the clouds clot like blood, flowing against one another, thunderheads swelling over the town in the heart of the forest. Men, jockeyed by adrenaline, yank out barrels to collect what is coming, cover sharp corners with blankets, drag mattresses over rocks and jagged edges and concrete.
The Garden arrived on a heatsick summer evening, Mom charging to intercept the mailman at the edge of our scraggled, sun-brittled lawn. She was already tearing open the packet when she called us into the kitchen, fishhooking her finger through the creamy envelope, the paper so dense it looked almost fabricky.
“The Rapture Index,” the titular story from Molly Reid’s debut short story collection, The Rapture Index: A Suburban Bestiary (BOA Editions, 2019), is awash in anxiety and tension from line one.
Throughout its years of continuous publication Prairie Schooner has consistently maintained a national reputation for literary excellence. Building upon this venerable history, the journal selects one short story collection from contemporary writers each year for this prize series. The series is sponsored and vetted by the staff of Prairie Schooner and a venerable committee of judges, and the selected volumes are published each year by UNP.
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