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J. Eden Little Sisters of the Apocalypse Catholic Girls Fort Privilege Magic Time The Ballad of T. Rantula Captain Grownup Tiger Rag Cry of the Daughter Armed Camps The Better Part At War As Children Mother Isn't Dead She's Only Sleeping
COLLECTIONS
Seven for the Apocalypse Weird Women, Wired Women The Revenge of the Senior Citizens** Plus Other Stories and The Attack of the Giant Baby The Killer Mice Mr. Da V and Other Stories
AS KIT CRAIG
Some Safe Place Closer Strait Twice Burned Gone
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Seven for the Apocalypse
Kit Reed
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WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Published by University Press of New England
Hanover, NH 03755
This collection 1999 by Kit Reed
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
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CIP data appear at the end of the book
Acknowledgments:
"Voyager" was first published in The Yale Review.
"In the Palace of the Dictator" was first published in A is for Brian, a birthday festschrift for Brian Aldiss.
"River" appeared in Asimov's SF.
"Slumber" was first published in The Tampa Review.
Little Sisters of the Apocalypse was first published by Fiction Collective Two in 1994.
"Rajmahal," "The Singing Marine" and "On the Penal Colony" appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
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Contents
Introduction
ix
Voyager
1
Rajmahal
15
River
28
Slumber
38
In the Palace of the Dictator
49
On the Penal Colony
61
Little Sisters of the Apocalypse
73
The Singing Marine
204
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KATY THEN AND NOW
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Introduction
Where does fiction begin? Critics' theories range from abstruse to diagrammatic, from the semiotic to the psychological, but for this practitioner, the answer seems simple. I think fiction begins with the writer and in lives that touch the writer's, and the interesting thing here is that some of these lives are remembered and some imagined but it all becomes so real in the process that for me, at least, there's no telling the difference between them.
Little Sisters of the Apocalypse began in two places. It began in Norwich, England, on the grass outside one of the ziggurats at the University of East Anglia. My daughter Katy said, "I saw the greatest thing on the side of a bus. LITTLE SISTERS OF ST. THERESA. What if it was LITTLE SISTERS OF THE APOCALYPSE? You can have the title, but I get to write the movie."
"Cool," I said. She thought: crusading nuns on a bus. I saw Mad Max with nuns, and the rest followed. At this writing my friend my daughter who is also my colleague has had one script produced and is finishing another. It could still happen. That's where Little Sisters of the Apocalypse started.
No. It started on a rainy afternoon in a Spanish stucco house that should have been a beach paradise. It would have been, too, if we hadn't been there about my mother, who was still getting around St. Petersburg, Florida even though her synapses were disconnecting in an inexorable progression. Minute parts of her brain were atrophying. When this kind of thing happens the person is
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still present still sweet, still infuriating but the party is over and it's only a matter of time before the hand of God drops on her head to shut down the sound system and the plumbing, sweep out the place and close the shutters. It was like watching time-lapse photos of a blackout in a major city. It took seven years, but that's another story.
It was raining hard in St. Petersburg Beach, Florida; it had been raining for days. The yard was flooding. There was a stray cat squalling underneath the house and we couldn't reach it. I may be telescoping events but I think that was also the week my mother phoned me with conflicting funeral plans. If it was, it was well before I gave up on her. In cases like these the next of kin is always the last to know. Hard rains in Florida fall in sheets; the air is so wet it's like being underwater. The paper wilted before I could get it into the $50 portable typewriter, but I needed a place to go.
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