Short fiction published in The Rupture Magazine (first published in The Collagist)

“Born Again”

… A torrent of flames falling on the heads of thousands of onlookers … a stallion up on its hind legs rearing and snorting … a monstrous flood tearing at the desert crust and taking the earth with it in any number of unnatural rivers and streams… (read more of the story here…)

Interview with Leah Bailly by The Rupture Magazine:

“Las Vegas is a profoundly religious place. People are praying all the time, on free cable, in front of the slots, in the thousands of churches all over. I wanted that pentecostal power to sort of seep into the text from those first words— I wanted signs, suspicion, sideways luck. Because Las Vegas gets to invent everything again (Paris, the Pyramids, etc) it reinvents religion too, in the form of casino chapels and Criss Angel shows… This says a lot about Las Vegas; people want Sin City to be magical, a place where God could deliver a miracle at the blackjack table. But no. This miracle is divined by Vegaboy of the Desert, and it comes in the form of crystal meth.” (read more of the interview here…)