Rant

RANT
    Chuck Palahniuk Helena?
    Contents
    Title Page Dedication Epigraph Author’s Note
    Chapter 1–An Introduction Chapter 2–Guardian Angels Chapter 3–Dogs
    Chapter 4–Fake Stars Chapter 5–Invisible Art Chapter 6–The Tooth Fairy Chapter 7–Haunted House Chapter 8–Pacing
    Chapter 9–Fishing Chapter 10–Werewolves Chapter 11–The Bees Chapter 12–The Food Chapter 13–Sporting Chapter 14–Going Away Chapter 15–Boosted Peaks Chapter 16–The Team Chapter 17–Hit Men Chapter 18–The City Chapter 19–Student Driver Chapter 20–Junkyards
    Chapter 21–Echo Chapter 22–A History Chapter 23–Love
    Chapter 24–Werewolves II Chapter 25–The Patsy Chapter 26–In Denial Chapter 27–Tree Night
    Chapter 28–Embedded Commands Chapter 29–Werewolves III Chapter 30–In Mourning
    Chapter 31–An Accounting Chapter 32–In Hindsight Chapter 33–Werewolves IV Chapter 34–What If
    Chapter 35–A Flashback Chapter 36–Hit Men II Chapter 37–Resolving Origin Chapter 38–Communitas Chapter 39–Werewolves V Chapter 40–Final Connections Chapter 41–Rant Revisited Chapter 42–Contributors
    About the Author
    Also by Chuck Palahniuk Copyright
    Author’s Note: This book is written in the style of an oral history, a form which requires interviewing a wide variety of witnesses and compiling their testimony. Anytime multiple sources are questioned about a shared experience, it’s inevitable for them occasionally to contradict each other. For additional biographies written in this style, please see Capote by George Plimpton, Edie by Jean Stein, and Lexicon Devil by Brendan Mullen.
    42–Contributors
    Do you ever wish you’d never been born?
    For myfather, Fred Leander Palahniuk. aLook up from the sidewalk. Please.
    Hudson Baker ( Student) is currently working toward her undergraduate degree in criminal justice.
    Brannan Benworth, D.M.D. ( Dentist) remains isolated in government infectious-disease quarantine for an indefinite period.
    Dr. Christopher Bing, Ph.D. ( Anthropologist) is currently overseas studying the culture of Noh drama in Japan.
    Allan Blayne ( Firefighter) remains isolated in government infectious-disease quarantine for an indefinite period.
    Wallace Boyer ( Car Salesman) is available to lecture extensively about his short-lived in-flight relationship with Rant Casey.
    Vivica Brawley ( Dancer) remains isolated in government infectious-disease quarantine for an indefinite period.
    Sheriff Bacon Carlyle ( Childhood Enemy) faces charges of wrongful arrest stemming from allegedly harassing visitors to the Middleton Tooth Museum.
    Basin Carlyle ( Childhood Neighbor) remains active in family, church, and community life.
    Bodie Carlyle ( Childhood Friend) operates and curates the newly opened Middleton Tooth Museum.
    Chester Casey ( Farmer ) disappeared in connection with a single-vehicle accident soon after the disappearance of Green Taylor Simms.
    Irene Casey ( Rant’s Mother) is now a wealthy philanthropist, and chief financial backer and docent of the Middleton Tooth Museum.
    Lynn Coffey ( Journalist) authored the nonfiction account Nail and Bail: A History ofParty Crashing.
    Gregg Denney ( Student) is deceased. He was shot by police under suspicion of being rabid.
    Shot Dunyun ( Party Crasher), formerly known as Christopher Dunyun, has been missing since the vehicle he was driving left the roadway and fell from the edge of a three-hundred-foot cliff.
    Cammy Elliot ( Childhood Friend) remains active in family, church, and community life.
    Logan Elliot ( Childhood Friend) remains active in family, church, and community life.
    Ruby Elliot ( Childhood Neighbor) remains active in family, church, and community life.
    Reverend Curtis Dean Fields ( Minister, Middleton Christian Fellowship) altered Communion practices after an outbreak of rabies was traced to a chalice of grape juice shared by his six-hundred-member congregation.
    Denise Gardner ( Real Estate Agent) was named a Millionaire-Bonus-Plus Seller in the regional midlevel single-family-home market.
    Sean Gardner ( Contractor), with his wife, operates the GothStop telephone hotline, an intervention-and-treatment program for parents of adolescent children trapped in the goth lifestyle.
    Ina Gebert, M.A. ( Theologist) is an asset at any party.
    Mary Cane Harvey ( Teacher) dreams of her upcoming retirement to “any place but Middleton.”
    Glenda Hendersen ( Childhood Neighbor) remains active in family, church, and community life.
    Silas