Utah! a Novel by Levi Rogers

Author:Levi Rogers [Rogers, Levi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: novel, volcano, utah, yellowstone, disaster, future, speculative
Publisher: Atmosphere Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five:

California Gulls

Wednesday

Sunday Morning Hangover. Depression at Its Finest

Provo, UT

Rebecca woke up on Wednesday, made some coffee, read a couple chapters from her Bible, then read the paper. She decided to get dressed and put some makeup on so she could feel like a real person. Rebecca paused for a second in the bathroom, forgetting and then remembering the strange and terrifying dream she had the night before. She brushed her hand through her hair to make sure it was all there.

Oh good! All there! She popped one of the pills she’d been prescribed the past year by her doctor, Lexapro, and then flossed.

She turned her computer on in the kitchen to check her email, responded to a few, and then opened her calendar. Wednesday she had marked for Becca and Lee’s arrival, which she had nearly forgot. It would be good to see them. She should go to the grocery store today after work, she thought. Get some steaks and something else nice to cook.

On her way to work Rebecca drove past several multilevel marketing companies en route to the church. Utah County was the home to several of these MLMs. Large essential oil companies and various beverage makers with strange names. Rebecca thought how interesting and strange it was that the state of Utah itself contained more multilevel marking companies than any other state. Prime opportunity for some side hustle business for moms (Rebecca herself was a member of Young Living essential oils, based right here in Lehi, Utah).

Rebecca had a meeting with the elders every Wednesday morning. They met early, at 7:00, before the majority of them—all older, all men, all white—went out to work their day jobs or back home. Greg was a retired doctor, Jim a former missionary, Dale a lawyer, and Adam was a businessman who use to work for GM. Rebecca was now attending the meetings after Phelix’s death, though she never used to. It was a small church, and yet even so, Rebecca felt like these meetings never went anywhere. She got along with the four elders for the most part, but after the meeting the elders would have to run the bullet points of their meeting past the other administrative arm, the deacons, who decided where to sign off financially, and where not to. Rebecca then had to balance any of her ideas with the larger denomination who set issues of doctrine, leadership, and general missiology. Was this what Jesus had in mind? She believed in church, the structure of it, even the accountability it was supposed to create, but she often fantasized about belonging to a church that had no structure or bureaucratic hoops to jump through.

She was proud to be a Presbyterian. She liked the tradition, the history of it. The Evangelical churches, after all, were nearly anarchic in their lack of structure and accountability, and still as dogmatic. Perhaps she simply longed to be a part of a church that had the distinction about what was “business” related

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