Bunny

The Bunnies take over the story immediately and compel Samantha to provide numerous examples of their voice. From the start, the Bunnies are in Samantha’s head and field of vision. They captivate her; although her tone is derisive, Samantha can’t stop thinking about them, nor can she look away. She marvels at their “pink-and-white bodies, forming a hot little circle of such rib-crushing love and understanding it took my breath away” (7). The Bunnies are an exclusive, forceful group. They remind Samantha of the “beautiful, murderous children in horror films” (8). The comparison holds more truth than Samantha realizes at the time. The Bunnies are murderous and violent—they explode rabbits and behead Drafts. Separate from the Drafts, they break down the boundaries between writing and the material world by embodying their cutesy, violent, sexual, and pretentious writing.

Limits don’t apply to the Bunnies. They usurp their individual identities by calling one another Bunny, and they take away Samantha’s identity; in Chapter 15, Samantha and the four Bunnies turn into an inseparable “we.” The Bunnies tyrannize Samantha, and she can’t free herself from their clutches. After Ava saves her, Samantha returns to their house to lead a workshop.