'Rapture' by Kelly Ward available now

The chapbook is the second in our Made In Appalachia series

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We're thrilled to announce the publication of 'Rapture' by Kelly Ward. 'Rapture' is a work of fiction and the second installment in our Made In Appalachia series. Author Kelly Ward hails from Clay City, KY and is currently a fiction candidate at WVU Creative Writing

'Rapture' chronicles the end of the world as witnessed by a wise-beyond-her-years teenager, Sarah. From a holler in far eastern Kentucky, Sarah and her brother Micah are forced to create a new normal under mysterious and scary circumstances. While they cope with the slow end of the world in different ways, Sarah reflects on what made life worth living in the first place.

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Kelly Ward is a fiction candidate in West Virginia University's MFA program and is a reader for the graduate program's literary journal, Cheat River Review. She graduated from Eastern Kentucky University with a degree in creative writing. Her work has been published in Button Eye Review. She writes speculative fiction set in Appalachia, and is quite lucky at finding four-leaf clovers.

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