Amy Hempel's The Harvest

This is the short story that Chuck Palahniuk refers to in the LA Times article. I found the actual printing that Palahniuk refers to and although it appears the story continues until the break down of the story, it actually ends with the sequence that begins with "As soon as I knew that I would be all right"

The last part is the author talking about the writing of the story. In The Quarterly Spring 1986, this is somewhere else in the magazine.