New short story, Rapture Basement

Image shows the Narrative Magazine website header, a photo of Maud Newton, and the first few sentences of her short story, Rapture Basement, which read as follows: My mother lies in the hospital bed, scrubbed clean and sleeping. Her hair is short and smooth, luminous gray against her skin in the light of this overcast morning. For years I’ve seen her—on the rare occasions I’ve seen her—only in honey-blonde wigs. As far as I

Rapture Basement,” the first short story I’ve written in well over a decade, is out from Narrative Magazine today. It arrived in a great rush this summer, and I think of it as a kind of fictional fraternal twin to my Baffler essay, “Taking T for Jesus.”


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